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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2016-04-12T17:33:08Z"
+ content="""
+The web remote is automatically available (so long as you have an internet
+connection) and does not need any configuration to use.
+
+What's going on here is, after git-annex downloads a file from the web
+remote, as from any remote, it verifies its checksum. Seems that the
+checksum of the content at an url on the web has changed. So, git-annex
+rejects the bad data.
+
+(Note that git-annex only started verifying checksums of downloads in
+version 5.20151019.)
+
+Now, sometimes you don't care if eg, a podcast file might get modified
+after `git-annex importfeed` initially adds it, and you want to just
+download whatever file is on the web now, and treat any contents coming
+from the web at different times as equivilant.
+
+The way to do that is to use --relaxed when running git-annex addurl or
+importfeed.
+"""]]