[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 2""" date="2021-08-24T16:42:27Z" content=""" This can only be used for git remotes that have an annex-uuid set. All special remotes have to have a uuid. git remotes that are hosted on a system with git-annex installed get the annex-uuid set up automatically, but it won't happen if your special remote is on github or something like that. You could `git config remote.foo.annex-uuid $(uuid)` to generate and set a new uuid, I suppose. """]]