It would be nice if a clone from eg, gitlab could autoenable the git-lfs special remote. Currently, autoenable doesn't work for git-lfs special remotes at all, because the url is not stored. What if, an url or urls passed to initremote were stored. Then when enableremote/autoenable runs, if it sees a git remote with a known url, it sets that remote up with annex-uuid and annex-git-lfs set, instead of adding a new remote. That might need changes to the Remote setup method, not sure. Problem: Many urls could be used to clone. http and ssh are the obvious two. url=http:// url=ssh:// won't work, only one value will be used. url1= url2= is annoying for the user, especially if they later want to add another url with enableremote and have to work out the number. > If each url is treated as a separate special remote (which makes a lot of sense > by analogy with how regular git remotes work), then > [[support_multiple_special_remotes_with_same_uuid]] could be used to > solve this. Problem: The user might go in and change the remote's url to point to some other server with a different git-lfs backend. In fact, they could already do so! Remembering the urls actually would let the special remote detect this; it can check if its remote's url is one that it knows about, and refuse to use it otherwise.