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diff --git a/doc/bugs/External_special_remote_SETURLPRESENT_doesn__39__t_seem_to_work/comment_3_6e856db0eb3bb3e7674649857d53cc11._comment b/doc/bugs/External_special_remote_SETURLPRESENT_doesn__39__t_seem_to_work/comment_3_6e856db0eb3bb3e7674649857d53cc11._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..35108ee82 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/External_special_remote_SETURLPRESENT_doesn__39__t_seem_to_work/comment_3_6e856db0eb3bb3e7674649857d53cc11._comment @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 3""" + date="2015-08-13T20:47:28Z" + content=""" +Needing enableremote is a trifle annoying, but I don't see a way to avoid +it and it's symmetric with needing to add a git remote to a repo before +accessing it. And of course, the user has to install your external special +remote's implementation too. Which is perhaps more annoying in this use case +where the file is only being retrieved with a dumb http call in the end. + +Instead of the current approach, I could have had special remotes +use SETURLPRESENT to record the public urls for keys. Then git-annex +would have something that notices if a special remote is not enabled, but +supports public urls, and perhaps auto-enables the special remote in +readonly mode, not using the normal implementation of the special remote, +but a standin implementation that just uses the public urls. That seems a +little complicated, especially with the auto-enabling, and it bloats the +git-annex branch with public urls. IIRC those are the reasons I decided not +to go that route. + +I've added WHEREIS to the protocol. It is only used for `whereis` +display. +"""]] |