Please describe the problem.
Our due to 10.20220624-27-gb223988e2 :
remove --backend from global options
--backend is no longer a global option, and is only accepted by commands
that actually need it.
well, our tests on OSX started to fail in
2022-06-30T05:53:21.6356200Z E datalad.runner.exception.CommandError: CommandError: 'git -c diff.ignoreSubmodules=none annex addurl --backend SHA1 --file=remotefile2 http://127.0.0.1:52474/remotefile --json --json-error-messages --json-progress -c annex.dotfiles=true' failed with exitcode 1 under /private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvm0000gn/T/datalad_temp_tree_test_AnnexRepo_backend_optionhe08bgd0 [info keys: stdout_json] [err: 'Invalid option `--backend'
so we are not using it as a global option. This functionality was already released in DataLad and I would appreciate if support for it was returned in git-annex so we could avoid coming up with an alternative way to do the same thing.
Sample logs could be found at https://github.com/datalad/git-annex/runs/7123868190?check_suite_focus=true or /mnt/datasets/datalad/ci/git-annex/builds/2022/06/cron-20220630/build-macos.yaml-740-90215d4e-failed/1_test-datalad (master).txt on smaug