_git annex initremote_ without a complete command set still adds an entry to the uuid.log etc... and thus clutters up the state of the annex. I would not have expected this behaviour as a user. _initremote_ should fail and not do anything if the commands that it has been given are incomplete or incorrect. I was initialising a few rsync repos and noticed that i ended up having mutiple rsync remotes with the same name but different uuid's. I know its hard if not impossible to remove these uuid's so I have just marked them as "dead" in my live annexes. Here's a transcript of the problem
x00:sandbox jtang$ mkdir atest x00:sandbox jtang$ cd atest/ x00:atest jtang$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/jtang/sandbox/atest/.git/ x00:atest jtang$ git annex init init ok (Recording state in git...) x00:atest jtang$ git annex status supported backends: SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E WORM URL supported remote types: git S3 bup directory rsync web hook trusted repositories: 0 semitrusted repositories: 2 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web cbb58e1c-d737-11e1-b682-83239d5ff2e0 -- here untrusted repositories: 0 dead repositories: 0 transfers in progress: none available local disk space: 185 gigabytes (+1 megabyte reserved) local annex keys: 0 local annex size: 0 bytes known annex keys: 0 known annex size: 0 bytes bloom filter size: 16 mebibytes (0% full) backend usage: x00:atest jtang$ git annex initremote foo git-annex: Specify the type of remote with type= x00:atest jtang$ git annex initremote foo type=rsync (Recording state in git...) initremote foo git-annex: Specify encryption=key or encryption=none or encryption=shared x00:atest jtang$ git annex initremote foo type=rsync (Recording state in git...) initremote foo git-annex: Specify encryption=key or encryption=none or encryption=shared x00:atest jtang$ git annex status supported backends: SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E WORM URL supported remote types: git S3 bup directory rsync web hook trusted repositories: (Recording state in git...) 0 semitrusted repositories: 5 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web cbb58e1c-d737-11e1-b682-83239d5ff2e0 -- here d3adfcd0-d737-11e1-b15b-b7032388f8aa -- foo d6d8e1e0-d737-11e1-956a-0b3d3451226a -- foo d78d795c-d737-11e1-ac98-4fe3d6fdfd54 -- foo untrusted repositories: 0 dead repositories: 0 transfers in progress: none available local disk space: 185 gigabytes (+1 megabyte reserved) local annex keys: 0 local annex size: 0 bytes known annex keys: 0 known annex size: 0 bytes bloom filter size: 16 mebibytes (0% full) backend usage: x00:atest jtang$> Indeed, I broke that in June by making it record the name in a much too > early stage. Now fixed. [[done]] --[[Joey]]