From 344ea83b3705e91c0b3b78686f6448501378ee88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:08:49 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add --- doc/devblog/day_9__Friday_the_13th.mdwn | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/devblog/day_9__Friday_the_13th.mdwn diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_9__Friday_the_13th.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_9__Friday_the_13th.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b8fe4bc19f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_9__Friday_the_13th.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Worked to get git-remote-gcrypt included in every git-annex autobuild +bundle. +(Except Windows; running a shell script there may need some work later..) + +Next I want to work on making the assistant easily able to create encrypted +git repositories on removable drives. Which will involve a UI to select +which gpg key to use, or creating (and backing up!) a gpg key. + +But, I got distracted chasing down some bugs on Windows. These were +quite ugly; more direct mode mapping breakage which resulted in +files not being accessible. Also fsck on Windows failed to detect and fix +the problem. All fixed now. (If you use git-annex on Windows, you should +certianly upgrade and run `git annex fsck`.) + +As with most bugs in the Windows port, the underlying cause turned out to +be stupid: `isSymlink` always returned False on Windows. Which makes sense +from the perspective of Windows not quite having anything entirely like +symlinks. But failed when that was being used to detect when files in the +git tree being merged into the repository had the symlink bit set.. + +Did bug triage. Backlog down to 32 (mostly messages from August).