git-remote-annex will be a program that allows push/pull/clone of a git repository to many types of git-annex special remote. This is a redesign and reimplementation of git-remote-datalad-annex. It will be a safer implementation, will support incremental pushes, and will be available to users who don't use datalad. --[[Joey]] --- This is implememented and working. Remaining todo list for it: * git-annex sync doesn't pull/push to these remotes, and should. * Cloning from an annex:: url with importtree=yes doesn't work (with or without exporttree=yes). This is because the ContentIdentifier db is not populated. It should be possible to work around this. * It would be nice if git-annex could generate an annex:: url for a special remote and show it to the user, eg when they have set the shorthand "annex::" url, so they know the full url. `git-annex info $remote` could also display it. Currently, the user has to remember how the special remote was configured and replicate it all in the url. There are some difficulties to doing this, including that RemoteConfig can have hidden fields that should be omitted. * initremote/enableremote could have an option that configures the url to a special remote to a annex:: url. This would make it easier to use git-remote-annex, since the user would not need to set up the url themselves. (Also it would then avoid setting `skipFetchAll = true`) * 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 would be good.