[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
 subject="streaming data and external backends"
 date="2020-07-30T15:58:21Z"
 content="""
\"I can't think of any situation where git-annex would GENKEY before it has the full content of a file available\" -- if [[todo/git-annex-cat]] were implemented, could then e.g. `git fsck --from REMOTE` without the data ever touching the disk.
"""]]