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Started laying the groundwork for [[desymlink]]'s direct mode.
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I got rather far!
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A git repo can be configured with `annex.direct` and all actions that
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transfer objects to it will replace the symlinks with regular files.
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Removing objects also works (and puts back a broken symlink),
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as does checking if an object is present, which even detects if a file
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has been modified.
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So far, this works best when such a direct mode repository is used as a git
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remote of another repository. It is also possible to run a few git-annex
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commands, like "get" in a direct mode repository, though others, like
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"drop" won't work because they rely on the symlink to map back to the key.
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Direct mode relies on map files existing for each key in the repository, that tell
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what file(s) use it. It also relies on cache files, that contain the last
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known mtime, size, and inode of the file. So far, I've been setting these
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files up by hand.
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The main thing that's missing is support for transferring objects from
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direct mode repositories. There's no single place I can modify to support
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that (like I could for the stuff mentioned above), and also it's difficult
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to do safely, since files could be modified at any time.
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So it'll need to quarantine files, to prevent a modified version from
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getting sent out. I could either do this by copying the file, or by
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temporarily `git annex lock`ing it. Unsure which choice would be less
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annoying..
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----
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Also did some investigation with Jimmy of the OSX app git-config hang.
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Seems to be some kind of imcompatability between the 10.7 autobuilder and
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10.8. Next step is probably to try to build on 10.8. Might also
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be worth trying <http://macdylibbundler.sourceforge.net/>, although my
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own scripts do more or less the same thing to build the app.
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