git-annex/doc/backends/comment_31_32df8ec41dd8a6516b88b1871c998eb9._comment
2020-02-20 19:23:07 +00:00

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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
subject="backends vs special remotes"
date="2020-02-20T19:23:04Z"
content="""
@annex2384 \"Backend which doesn't store files at all?\" -- are you sure you're thinking of backends and not of [[special_remotes]]? Backends don't \"store files\", special remotes do. Backends create keys identifying specific contents.
Not sure I fully understand your use case, but you could write an [[external special remote|special_remotes/external]] that, for a given git-annex key, stores \"the location of possible local copies of the file\" -- e.g. using `SETSTATE` or `SETURIPRESENT`.
"""]]