From 749d69f12dad1bd6de8a0f52a9afca745515b569 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:13:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] devblog --- ...__back_buggy_external_special_remotes.mdwn | 30 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/devblog/day_463-465__back_buggy_external_special_remotes.mdwn diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_463-465__back_buggy_external_special_remotes.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_463-465__back_buggy_external_special_remotes.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..413e99e1e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_463-465__back_buggy_external_special_remotes.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +I'm back working on git-annex after a month away! It's good to be back, and +I've made some decent improvements this week. + +New features include a `GIT_ANNEX_VECTOR_CLOCK` environment variable that +may be useful for those using git-annex in a HIPPA compliance setting, +where timestamps are verboten (but verifying full compliance is up to +you!), and remote.name.annex-ignore-command and +remote.name.annex-sync-command configurations that let shell commands be +run to vary what remotes are used depending on eg, what network it's on. + +Also, I took a look at the external special remote protocol, and noticed +two problems with it. First, keys with spaces in their names can't be used +with it. This only affects the WORM backend, and it seems noone has ever +run into the problem. Rather than complicate the implementation of external +special remotes, I decided to deprecate having spaces in key names. Which +is just asking for trouble anyway. So now there's a nice error message, and +a migration path. + +The other problem was that the external special remote documentation +incorrectly said that a filename parameter never contained spaces. But in +fact, there are situations where it can. This was not a problem with the +protocol, but only with its documentation, and potentially with the +implementation of some special remotes. So, I've spent some time today +auditing every git-annex special remote that I know about. A few scripts +that are bundled with git-annex were buggy and got fixed, and I +filed bugs on 9 other external special remotes. A few did already get it +right! + +Today's work was sponsored by Trenton Cronholm on +[Patreon](https://patreon.com/joeyh/)