todo from forum post

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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2025-01-07T16:28:03Z"
+ content="""
+Interesting idea. Even without --sameas, it's possible to have 2 remotes
+that connect to the same repository in different ways, with one being
+readonly and the other supporting write as well. So I don't think this is
+really specific to --sameas.
+
+git-annex also has limited knowledge about whether a given special remote
+is readonly or not. That would make any kind of automated fallback unlikely
+to work well.
+
+I think there would need to be some config option to enable this.
+Otherwise, the user might be surprised if git-annex used a remote that they
+didn't want it to use for whatever reason.
+
+I've opened a todo, [[todo/config_different_remote_to_use_for_write_operations]].
+"""]]

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+Sometimes the same repository can be accessed via two remotes. One remote
+might be readonly, but fast (or not needing a password) while the other one
+supports writing. The idea is to have a config setting that makes git-annex
+use the latter remote for write operations when the user tells it to
+operate on the former remote.
+
+This is somewhat similar to `remote.<name>.annexUrl`, but that is for
+different urls that access the same type of remote, eg http and ssh access
+to a git repository.
+
+This would also support --sameas remotes where a data store can be
+accessed via two different types of special remotes.
+
+The config could be something like `remote.<name>.annexWrite`.
+
+Implementation would need to somehow handle cases where a command can both
+read and write. Eg, `git-annex sync --content foo` with
+remote.foo.annexWrite=bar should use foo for reads, but bar for writes.
+So the implementation can't just replace the remote at parameter parse
+time. Instead, it seems it would need to modify the Remote object for foo,
+making write actions call to the Remote object for bar.

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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 10"""
+ date="2025-01-07T16:57:04Z"
+ content="""
+Note that I've opened a related todo, 
+[[config_different_remote_to_use_for_write_operations]]
+which might be a better approach to the `pushInsteadOf`
+type of thing.
+"""]]