query external remotes for versions of dependencies
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For that we might need to provide some layered mechanism to pick up configurations. E.g. in many datalad or even simpler git repo based cases it could go to .git/config or "datalad's config".
edit1: what I really wondered is even for those external hooks to provide augmentation of environment, e.g. ENV vars, so we could e.g. provide env var to tune git-annex commit message to git-annex branch, e.g. to include its version to help later troubleshooting odd changes etc
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For that we might need to provide some layered mechanism to pick up configurations. E.g. in many datalad or even simpler git repo based cases it could go to
.git/configor "datalad's config".edit1: what I really wondered is even for those external hooks to provide augmentation of environment, e.g. ENV vars, so we could e.g. provide env var to tune git-annex commit message to git-annex branch, e.g. to include its version to help later troubleshooting odd changes etc