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I knew that making `git annex export` handle renames efficiently would take
a whole day somehow.
Indeed, thinking it over, it is a seriously super hairy thing. Renames can swap
contents between two or more files, and so temp files are needed. It has to
handle cleaning up temp files after interrupted exports, which may be
resumed with the same or a different tree. It also has to recover from
export conflicts, which could cause the wrong content to be renamed to a file.
I think I've thought through everything and found a way to deal with it all.
Here's how it looks in operation swapping two files:
git annex export master --to dir
rename bar -> .git-annex-tmp-content-SHA256E-s30--472b01bf6234c98ce03d1386483ae578f6e58033974a1363da2606f9fa0e222a ok
rename foo -> .git-annex-tmp-content-SHA256E-s4--b5bb9d8014a0f9b1d61e21e796d78dccdf1352f23cd32812f4850b878ae4944c ok
rename .git-annex-tmp-content-SHA256E-s4--b5bb9d8014a0f9b1d61e21e796d78dccdf1352f23cd32812f4850b878ae4944c -> bar ok
rename .git-annex-tmp-content-SHA256E-s30--472b01bf6234c98ce03d1386483ae578f6e58033974a1363da2606f9fa0e222a -> foo ok
(recording state in git...)
The export todo list is only getting longer.. But the branch may
be close to being merged.
Today's work was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.