datalad-annex supports cloning from the web special remote, using an url that contains the result of pushing to eg, a directory special remote. `datalad-annex::https://example.com?type=web&url={noquery}` Supporting something like this in git-remote-annex would be good. The httpalso special remote already exists to handle this kind of thing. In fact, it just works with git-remote-annex! Eg, this url on my laptop is a directory special remote accessed via the web server: annex::13c2500f-a302-4331-9720-6ec43cb8da2b?encryption=none&exporttree=yes&type=httpalso&url=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2F~joey%2Ftmp%2Fd But, while fetching from a httpalso special remote works, and cloning works, after cloning, fetching again fails: joey@darkstar:~/tmp/newp2>git fetch origin git-annex: no url configured for httpalso special remote > fixed that, [[done]] --[[Joey]]