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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]]
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This is implememented and working. Remaining todo list for it:
* When git clone is used with an annex:: url that is for a directory
special remote and is missing directory=, for example, it does
not display any useful error message. git fetch does, but it seems
git clone eats git-remote-annex stderr.
* 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.
* 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.