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Joey Hess e64add7cdf
git-remote-annex: support importrree=yes remotes
When exporttree=yes is also set. Probably it would also be possible to
support ones with only importtree=yes, by enabling exporttree=yes for
the remote only when using git-remote-annex, but let's keep this
simple... I'm not sure what gets recorded in .git/annex/ state
differently in the two cases that might cause a problem when doing that.

Note that the full annex:: urls generated and displayed for such a
remote omit the importree=yes. Which is ok, cloning from such an url
uses an exporttree=remote, but the git-annex branch doesn't get written
by this program, so once the real config is available from the git-annex
branch, it will still function as an importree=yes remote.
2024-05-27 12:35:42 -04:00

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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.
* 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.