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diff --git a/doc/git-annex-enableremote.mdwn b/doc/git-annex-enableremote.mdwn index 79b224a04..3b543c969 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex-enableremote.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex-enableremote.mdwn @@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ special remote names. Some special remotes may need parameters to be specified every time they are enabled. For example, the directory special remote requires a directory= -parameter. - +parameter every time. + This command can also be used to modify the configuration of an existing -special remote, by specifying new values for parameters that were -originally set when using initremote. (However, some settings such as +special remote, by specifying new values for parameters that are +usually set when using initremote. (However, some settings such as the as the encryption scheme cannot be changed once a special remote has been created.) - + The GPG keys that an encrypted special remote is encrypted with can be changed using the keyid+= and keyid-= parameters. These respectively add and remove keys from the list. However, note that removing a key @@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ on files that have already been copied to the remote. Hence using keyid+= and keyid-= with such remotes should be used with care, and make little sense except in cases like the revoked key example above. +If you get tired of manually enabling a special remote in each new clone, +you can pass "autoenable=true". Then when [[git-annex-init]](1) is run in +a new clone, it will will attempt to enable the special remote. Of course, +this works best when the special remote does not need anything special +to be done to get it enabled. + # SEE ALSO [[git-annex]](1) |