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diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist:_generic_annex.cost-command.mdwn b/doc/todo/wishlist:_generic_annex.cost-command.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6adf1460e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist:_generic_annex.cost-command.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +### Current setup + +ATM git-annex has + +remote.<name>.annex-cost +remote.<name>.annex-cost-command # command is not provided cmdline options by annex + +to set the cost for a given remote. That requires setting up one of those variables per each host, and possibly hardcoding options for the annex-cost-command providing e.g. the remote name. + +### Suggestion + +wouldn't it be more general and thus more flexible to have a repository-wide + +annex.cost-command + +which could take options %remote, %file and assessed accordingly per each file upon '--get' request to allow maximal flexibility: e.g. some files might better be fetched from remotes supporting transfer compression, some from the web, etc. Also it might be worth providing %remote_kind ("special" vs "git") to disambiguate %remote's? + |