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+I would like to use git-annex to place files on a remote server using rsync and then use another app to generate links to them.
+However, the remote path cannot be derived from the local path because certain intermediate directories on the remote system are different from those on the local system.
+There doesn't seem to be a way to ask git-annex for remote file paths.
+
+I know that git-annex knows how to find the files on the remote system because separate git-annex repositories can both reach the same files (or else the whole transfer repository idea would not work).
+
+On LOCAL_A (Debian 7.3):
+
+    $ git annex version
+    git-annex version: 3.20120629
+    ...
+    $ mkdir LOCAL_REPOSITORY
+    $ cd LOCAL_REPOSITORY
+    $ git init
+    $ git annex init "local A"
+    $ cp /tmp/MYFILE.png .
+    $ git annex add MYFILE.png
+    $ git commit -m "initial commit"
+    $ git annex initremote rsyncremote type=rsync encryption=none rsyncurl=USER@REMOTE_HOST:~/REMOTE_DIR
+    $ git annex copy --to rsyncremote .
+    $ ls -l
+    total 8
+    lrwxrwxrwx 1 me me 184 Feb  5 13:01 MYFILE.png -> .git/annex/objects/j5/FV/SHA256-s82130--0f4a2c2ae46d17277188b9ce93d9cc1a033b84e57a30abce7ccce792852ed2cc/SHA256-s82130--0f4a2c2ae46d17277188b9ce93d9cc1a033b84e57a30abce7ccce792852ed2cc
+
+On LOCAL_B (CrunchBang Linux 11 "Waldorf", derived from Debian Wheezy):
+
+    $ git annex version
+    git-annex version: 4.20131002~bpo70+1
+    ...
+    $ git clone USER@LOCAL_A:/PATH/TO/LOCAL_REPOSITORY
+    $ cd LOCAL_REPOSITORY
+    $ git annex init "local B"
+    $ git annex enableremote rsyncremote
+    $ git annex copy --from rsyncremote .
+    $ ls -l
+    total 8
+    lrwxrwxrwx 1 me me 184 Feb  5 13:09 MYFILE.png -> .git/annex/objects/j5/FV/SHA256-s82130--0f4a2c2ae46d17277188b9ce93d9cc1a033b84e57a30abce7ccce792852ed2cc/SHA256-s82130--0f4a2c2ae46d17277188b9ce93d9cc1a033b84e57a30abce7ccce792852ed2cc
+
+On REMOTE_HOST (Debian 7.3):
+
+    $ cd ~/REMOTE_DIR
+    $ find . -type f -print
+    ./25b/bff/SHA256-s82130--0f4a2c2ae46d17277188b9ce93d9cc1a033b84e57a30abce7ccce792852ed2cc/SHA256-s82130--0f4a2c2ae46d17277188b9ce93d9cc1a033b84e57a30abce7ccce792852ed2cc
+
+The difference is the `../j5/FV/..` on the local systems versus the `../25b/bff/..` on the remote system.