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Sometimes a name has been used for a special remote, and you want to change
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the name. A common reason is that the special remote has become dead, and
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you want to reuse the name for a new special remote.
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Initremote prevents reusing a name when the old one exists, even if the old
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one is dead. And that makes sense in general, because a dead remote can
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come back sometimes, and that would leave the repo with two special remotes
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with the same name, and so enableremote would need to be run with a uuid
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instead of a name to specify which one to enable, which is not a desirable
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state of affairs.
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So, add `git annex renameremote oldname newname`. Updates the remote.log
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with the new name.
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This could also do a `git
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remote rename`, or equivilant. (`git remote rename` gets confused by special
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remotes not having a fetch url and fails; this can be worked around by
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manually renaming the stanza in git config.) But.. Perhaps it's better to
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keep it simple and not do that. There's no necessarily a correspondance
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between the name of a remote in the local repo and the name of a
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special remote in the remote.log.
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[[done]] --[[Joey]]
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