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guidance on size and mtime fields

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git-annex (8.20200720.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
git-annex (8.20200720.1) upstream; urgency=medium
* Fix a bug in find --batch in the previous version.
-- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:37:40 -0400
-- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:39:11 -0400
git-annex (8.20200720) upstream; urgency=medium

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## considerations for generating keys
See [[internals/key_format]] for how to format a key.
See [[internals/key_format]] for how to format a key and details about the
parts of a key.
The backend name should match the name of the program, eg if the program
is git-annex-backend-XFOO, it should generate a key starting with "XFOO-".
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several things that make sha1 collision attacks difficult, we don't want
this chink in the armor.
It's almost always a good idea to include the size field when generating a
key. The size does not need to be checked when verifying content, as
git-annex handles that for you. The only time it would make sense to omit
the size field is if the content of a key is not stable and might have
different sizes (like some URL keys do).
There's generally no reason to include the mtime field, and it should
never be verified when verifying content.
## program names must be unique
It's important that two different programs don't use the same name, because

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doc/design/external_backend_protocol/git-annex-backend-XFOO
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GENKEY)
contentfile="$2"
hash=$(hashfile "$contentfile")
sz=$(wc -c "$contentfile" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
if [ -n "$hash" ]; then
echo "GENKEY-SUCCESS" "XFOO--$hash"
echo "GENKEY-SUCCESS" "XFOO-s$sz--$hash"
else
echo "GENKEY-FAILURE" "md5sum failed"
fi