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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-02-14 14:21:58 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-02-14 14:21:58 -0400 |
| commit | 2db52589e032c5280179562e8c0c859491f8bdb1 (patch) | |
| tree | b8b6879883e3f934b808a40cf09c5c5b17f952c9 | |
| parent | 9416588cead0ce7d8919eae7a692fce821257a1b (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/git-annex-enableremote/comment_2_43876327581d6bcfb69c318c02d6389a._comment b/doc/git-annex-enableremote/comment_2_43876327581d6bcfb69c318c02d6389a._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e3b51b6a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/git-annex-enableremote/comment_2_43876327581d6bcfb69c318c02d6389a._comment @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 2""" + date="2017-02-14T18:16:52Z" + content=""" +@Sundar, good question. + +`git annex enableremote` will always refuse to enable the remote if there's +a missing parameter, and prompt for the parameter. Finding the right value +is up to you. Most of the time, no additional parameters are needed, or +the parameters are fairly self-explanatory, eg login passwords for remote +services. + +The difficulty with directory special remotes is that my /foo may not be +the same as your /foo, so it can't reuse the directory= that was provided +to initremote, and it's up to you to enter the right directory path. + +I think this needs to come down to documentation in the repository. The +description of the remote (set by `git annex describe` +is a reasonable place to put that, unless you have somewhere better. +"""]] |