git-annex/doc/special_remotes/comment_50_4485e72f90f46beef3f216ffab82386e._comment
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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""comment 50"""
date="2021-03-08T16:46:57Z"
content="""
It would be possible for initremote to allow reusing a name that is used
for an old remote that has been marked as dead. The reason that is not
allowed, I think, is that there is some footgun potential: If the old
remote somehow was lost and then was found, it would either be hard to unmark
it as dead, or if that was done, there would be 2 remotes with the same
name, which would complicate using enableremote.
So it seems best to rename the old one before creating the new one.
That way it's got a unique name still.
"""]]