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Landed two behavior changes in the past two days, which I wanted to mention
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here.
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First, special remotes configured with autoenable=yes will be auto-enabed
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by the automatic git-annex initialization that it does in a clone of a
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git-annex repo. Before, `git annex init` had to be run to "auto-enable"
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them. Probably few people will notice this, unless a special remote somehow
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takes too long to enable. May later have to add a timeout.
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Second, a command like `git annex get foo` will complain if the specified
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file or directory is not known to git. Lots of users have gotten confused
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by why such a command would silently return without doing anything.
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Commands like `git annex get dir` will not complain about files in the
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directory that are not under git's control, unless none of them are.
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(Same behavior as eg `git commit dir`.) Mostly this change affects using
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wildcards, or just being confused about a file not being checked into git.
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Due to the potential to break some workflows, new behavior will only be
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enabled for now annex.skipunknown is set to false. I plan to make that the
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default in early 2022. (About a year delay seemed right generally but I
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added some time due to the pandemic.) So if you prefer the original
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behavior, you can just set annex.skipunknown true.
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At least for now, git-annex will still skip over files that are checked
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into git but are not annexed files. May make sense to change that too,
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we'll see if users get confused by that like by the other skipping
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behavior.
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