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Powered through the backlog today, and got it down to 67! Probably most of
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the rest is the hard ones though.
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A theme today was: It's stupid hard to get git-annex-shell installed into
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PATH. While that should be the simplest thing in the world, I'm pinned
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between two problems:
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1. There's no single portable package format, so all the decades of
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development nice ways to get things into PATH don't work for everybody.
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2. bash provides not a single dotfile that will work in all circumstances
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to configure PATH. In particular, "ssh $host git-annex-shell" causes bash
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to helpfully avoid looking at any dotfiles at all.
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Today's flailing to work around that inluded:
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* Merged a patch from Fraser Tweedale to allow `git config remote.origin.annex-shell /not/in/path/git-annex-shell`
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* Merged a patch from Justin Lebar to allow symlinking the git-annex-shell
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etc from the standalone tarball to a directory that is in PATH. (Only
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on Linux, not OSX yet.)
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* Improved the warning message git-annex prints when a remote server does
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not have git-annex-shell in PATH, suggesting some things the user could
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do to try to fix it.
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I've found out why OSX machines were retrying upgrades repeatedly. The
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version in the .info file did not match the actual git-annex version for
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OSX. I've fixed the info file version, but will need to come up with a
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system to avoid such mismatches.
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Made a few other fixes. A notable one is that dragging and dropping
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repositories in the webapp to reorder the list (and configure costs)
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had been broken since November.
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git-annex 5.20140421 finally got into Debian testing today, so I updated
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the backport. I recommend upgrading, especially if you're using the
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assistant with a ssh remote, since you'll get all of last month's nice
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features that make XMPP unnecessary in that configuration.
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Today's work was sponsored by Geoffrey Irving.
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