### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)
I use git-annex successfully constantly and have done for years. :-) First time writing a special external remote, though.
+
+> [[notabug|done]] --[[Joey]]
--- /dev/null
+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2022-03-21T17:17:54Z"
+ content="""
+"foo" is not a valid git-annex key, so "GETSTATE foo" is a protocol error.
+
+If you had it send "GETSTATE SHA256E-s19--3b99fd544e5e49915ca060f193c615caf82a045b1145672dd6f2181473fd516d",
+it would work.
+"""]]