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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="4.153.2.189"
+ subject="comment 2"
+ date="2012-07-26T17:27:39Z"
+ content="""
+That's a good question. Unfortunatly they cannot; X and Y need to be stable across repositories, and git remotes can have different names in different repositories.
+
+Even using the description that git-annex stores for each repository for X and Y is problimatic, since that description can change, and so could be different in two repos that are each trying to resolve the same merge conflict.
+"""]]