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Does this also work if I have data on SharePoint, DropBox, etc. and want to pull them (sync with local machine)?

My use case is mostly ETL related, where I want to pull all customers data (enterprise customer) so I can process them. But also keep the data updated, hence pull?

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In an ideal world the rclone special remote would support git-annex' importtree feature. Then you could periodically run `git annex import <branch>:<subdir> --from <sharepoint/dropbox-remote>` to "pull" from those remotes (it is not really a pull as you aren't fetching version-controlled data from those remotes, rather you are importing from a non-version-controlled source and record the result as a new revision).

Unfortunately this is not (yet?) supported I think. But you could also just do something like this: `rclone copy/sync <sharepoint/dropbox-remote>: ./<local-directory> && git annex add ./<local-directory> && git commit -m <message>`.

git-annex does support rclone as a special remote iirc

Yes it does, but I don't think the special remote supports the importtree feature, which would be necessary for this.

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