Some remotes disappeared from `git annex info` after synchronising with a new repo.
### What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. have a nice repository full of remotes and special remotes
2. create a new repository with `git init; git annex init; git reinit <some UUID from a previously lost repository>`
3. sync the two repositories
Expected the result: restore the lost repository the its previous state.
Actual result: previous state available, but lost track of other repositories.
I suspect there may be a relation to an old "forget history" transition at play here, as the last commit on the git-annex branch is:
```
commit 266099a48af81eab71d27741b43776372aa519c4
Merge: 13ed0a6 05681b9
Author: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>
Date: Wed Mar 30 12:49:55 2016 -0400
continuing transition ["forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes"]
```
So in short, some remotes that i never marked as dead seem to be caught in the whirlpool of `forget` transitions.
### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
5.20151208-1~bpo8+1 on debian jessie.
### Please provide any additional information below.
So here's what i could salvage from my terminal history. Note that window resizing may have truncated some lines. Apologies for the mess...
[1077]anarcat@angela:cb39412b-d221-4846-a9dd-cdbabd9958f1$ sudo mkdir Music
[1078]anarcat@angela:cb39412b-d221-4846-a9dd-cdbabd9958f1$ sudo chown anarcat Music
[1079]anarcat@angela:cb39412b-d221-4846-a9dd-cdbabd9958f1$ cd Music/
[1082]anarcat@angela:Music$ git init
Dépôt Git vide initialisé dans /media/anarcat/cb39412b-d221-4846-a9dd-cdbabd9958f1/Music/.gi
merge git-annex (merging origin/git-annex origin/synced/git-annex into git-annex...)
(recording state in git...)
[1092]anarcat@angela:Music$ git co master
Extraction des fichiers: 100% (22187/22187), fait.
La branche master est paramétrée pour suivre la branche distante master depuis origin.
Déjà sur 'master'
[1099]anarcat@angela:Music130$ date; time git annex get --quiet --in here; date
mercredi 30 mars 2016, 12:53:29 (UTC-0400)
sha256sum: .git/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s4476433--bb954dfe81f3d0906a18e53d02040d1d8f8e78917552e0033b056bbf885710d9.mp3: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
sha256sum failed
git-annex: .git/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s4476433--bb954dfe81f3d0906a18e53d02040d1d8f8e78917552e0033b056bbf885710d9.mp3: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
Those are repositories that are in the git-annex history, but that don't have git remotes associated with them, for various reasons. I do *not* believe I have marked any of those as "dead" except maybe 3f6d8082-6f4b-4faa-a3d9-bd5db1891077. f8818d12-9882-4ca5-bc0f-04e987888a8d was used during the weekend to do my backups, so it's definitely not dead.
It is also interesting to note that even though `git annex info` doesn't know about the remotes, there is still tracking information about all of them (except the 3f one):
it's a mystery to me why that stuff disappeared from `git-annex info`. it's especially confusing since some commands seem to recognize there *was* a remote there:
... and it clearly looks like the file was damaged on that new repo:
[[!format txt """
* 266099a N (synced/git-annex, git-annex) continuing transition ["forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes"] (il y a 75 minutes) <Antoine Beaupré>
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* | 298cc10 N (htcones/synced/git-annex) continuing transition ["forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes","forget git history","forget dead remotes"] (il y a 13 jours) <Antoine Beaupré>| |
