Please describe the problem.
A special remote implementation that needs to look up further config based on the remote name no longer works, because a recent change prevents GETCONFIG name to return the remote name while git annex initremote is driving the special remote implementation.
What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
It used to work with 7.20191230 and no longer does with 8.20200226, test on Debian and Ubuntu.
Please provide any additional information below.
Originally reported at https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/4259
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)
There is no day that ends without me being grateful for git-annex 
Hmm, I wonder if I was aware that any externals used GETCONFIG with things like name. Seems I might have heard about it at one point and forgotten? Reading the external protocol, it does say it's anything passed to initremote.
I've fixed this. Release should happen by tomorrow.
(I've also backported the fix to the 7.x branch.)