git-annex-enableremote(1)

NAME
git-annex-enableremote - enables use of an existing special remote

SYNOPSIS
git annex enableremote name [param=value ...]

DESCRIPTION
Enables use of an existing special remote in the current repository, which may be a different repository than the one in which it was originally created with the initremote command.

The name of the remote is the same name used when originally creating that remote with git annex initremote. Run git annex enableremote without any name to get a list of 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.

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 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 does NOT necessarily prevent the key's owner from accessing data in the encrypted special remote (which is by design impossible, short of deleting the remote).

One use-case of keyid-= is to replace a revoked key with a new key:

 git annex enableremote mys3 keyid-=revokedkey keyid+=newkey

Also, note that for encrypted special remotes using plain public-key encryption (encryption=pubkey), adding or removing a key has NO effect 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.

SEE ALSO
git-annex(1)

git-annex-initremote(1)

AUTHOR
Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>