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Put non-object tmp files in .git/annex/misctmp, leaving .git/annex/tmp for only partially transferred objects.

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This allows eg, putting .git/annex/tmp on a ram disk, if the disk IO
of temp object files is too annoying (and if you don't want to keep
partially transferred objects across reboots).

.git/annex/misctmp must be on the same filesystem as the git work tree,
since files are moved to there in a way that will not work cross-device,
as well as symlinked into there.

I first wanted to put the tmp objects in .git/annex/objects/tmp, but
that would pose transition problems on upgrade when partially transferred
objects existed.

git annex info does not currently show the size of .git/annex/misctemp,
since it should stay small. It would also be ok to make something clean it
out, periodically.
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Joey Hess 2014-02-26 16:52:56 -04:00
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@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ git-annex (5.20140222) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* Add build dep on regex-compat to fix build on mipsel, which lacks
regex-tdfa.
* Disable test suite on sparc, which is missing optparse-applicative.
* Put non-object tmp files in .git/annex/misctmp, leaving .git/annex/tmp
for only partially transferred objects.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:03:04 -0400