2018-10-31 12:31:07 +00:00
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Tracking v7 progress toward becoming the default.
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## step 1: release
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done
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## step 2: default for new direct mode repositories
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2019-02-20 15:28:00 +00:00
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Done when using the command line to init in a crippled filesystem.
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The assistant still creates direct mode repositories though,
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and will need to enable annex.thin and adjusted unlocked branch instead.
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2018-10-31 12:31:07 +00:00
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## step 3: auto-upgrade from direct mode
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Direct mode is very buggy and limited, so it's easy for v7 (with adjusted
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unlocked branches) to be better than it.
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Need to give it some time for problems to be found though.
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Here are some problems that need to be investigated first:
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- <http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/assistant_crashes_in_TransferScanner/>
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- <http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/v6_appears_to_not_thin/>
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- <http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/git-annex-sync_sometimes_fails_in_submodule_in_V6_adjusted_branch/>
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2019-02-20 15:28:00 +00:00
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Note that direct mode repos with old git-annex interoperate with adjusted
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unlocked repos with new git-annex, so there is no need to wait for v7 to be
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widely supported.
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## step 4: default for all new repositories
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Could probably happen fairly soon after default in direct mode.
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This is entirely new repositories that git-annex init is run in for the
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first time (no sibling git-annex branches).
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2018-10-31 12:31:07 +00:00
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2019-02-20 15:28:00 +00:00
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## step 5: automatic v5 to v7 upgrades
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2018-10-31 12:31:07 +00:00
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Since v5 repos and v7 repos not using unlocked files are functionally
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almost identical, this is unlikely to break much. Unlocking files will of
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course change behavior though.
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This needs to be deferred until every git-annex likely to be in use
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supports v7. A v5 repository may be used by multiple
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2019-02-20 15:28:00 +00:00
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machines, some not supporting v7 and some that do. If one upgrades to v7
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and starts using unlocked files, those files won't be accessible on the old
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v5 machines.
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2018-10-31 12:31:07 +00:00
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## step 6: remove support for direct mode
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Will simplify a lot of code.
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2019-02-20 15:28:00 +00:00
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## step 7: remove support for v5
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2018-10-31 12:31:07 +00:00
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This won't simplify much code, but maybe worth doing eventually.
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Best not to rush this, maybe in 5 years from when v7 is default?
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