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[[!toc]]
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# Introduction
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Hello.
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I've installed git-annex and/or git-annex assistant on Windows 7 in a corp environment (hello gotchas!).
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In this post I'll describe issues I encountered, how I fixed them, and recommendations I have for the installer.
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# Background
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My regular domain user doesn't have permissions to write to `C:\Program Files (x86)`, so I use a secondary domain user which is in the Administrators group. I use "Run as different user" to run installers, etc. (cf. "Run as Administrator")
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During msysgit installation I checked "only bash, don't add to path, don't integrate with Explorer" etc, since I like my third-party applications isolated.
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# The installer
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## Where to install `git-annex.exe`
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The nightly build of git-annex/assistant from NEST (20140908) only prompts for the base path of the msysgit location and it installs files in `$BASE/bin` and `$BASE/cmd`... I'll try manually copying files post-install to mitigate the path issues described in other posts on this forum.
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The msysgit installer (1.9.4-preview20140815) presents a certain screen with three radio options:
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1. git bash only
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2. just git in `cmd.exe`
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3. git + unix tools in `cmd.exe`.
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I *think* this is the meaning of each:
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1. cmd.exe's PATH is not touched.
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2. `$GITBASE/cmd` is added to PATH
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3. `$GITBASE/bin` is added to PATH
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Therefore, I think that if you do something so that `git-annex.exe` is added to both $GITBASE/cmd and $GITBASE/bin (perhaps a symlink or even a .lnk file) then all three user preference options will be covered.
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All I did was copy `$BASE/cmd/git-annex.exe` to `$BASE/bin/git-annex.exe` and now both `git annex` and `git-annex` work in my msysgit "git bash" console. I didn't test `cmd.exe` since I selected option 1 in the msysgit installer.
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## Installer locations: user profile or system-wide?
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I found a shortcut for the webapp in Start Menu/Startup ... for the wrong user. Please prompt the user during the installation: "Install startup link system-wide or for current user?"
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# git annex test results
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## `$HOME` defaulted to some mapped drive, whoops!
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The test suite has been running since before I started this post. Is that normal? :)
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I notice that it emits "Detected a crippled filesystem", "Enabling direct mode." and other messages again and again. If those checks are expensive, maybe the result should be memoized/cached.
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Oh goodness, the test is reading and writing to my "home directory": a remote filesystem I never use. It's slow. I'll have to configure msysgit to use a different, more local `$HOME`. This a common problem on this workstation. I'll let the test finish in case it reveals something useful to you, but this will not be how I use it going forward...
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I am unable to attach `testWithMappedDriveHomeDirConsoleOutput.txt` to this post. 1 out of 84 tests failed. Here is the only case sensitive occurrence of FAIL in the console output, with some lines of context.
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OK
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info: Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
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Disabling ssh connection caching.
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Detected a crippled filesystem.
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Enabling direct mode.
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git-annex: Data.BloomFilter.Util.suggestSizing: capacity too large to represent
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FAIL
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Exception: user error (git-annex ["info","--json"] exited 1)
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version: Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
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Disabling ssh connection caching.
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Detected a crippled filesystem.
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Enabling direct mode.
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git-annex version: 5.20140908-g378fbb1
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build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA CryptoHash
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## test results with local NTFS `$HOME`
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...The console output is scrolling by much more quickly.
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2 out of 84 tests failed.
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prop_past_sane: OK
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+++ OK, passed 1000 tests.
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prop_duration_roundtrips: OK
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+++ OK, passed 1000 tests.
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prop_metadata_sane: OK
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+++ OK, passed 1000 tests.
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prop_metadata_serialize: OK
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+++ OK, passed 1000 tests.
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prop_branchView_legal: OK
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+++ OK, passed 1000 tests.
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prop_view_roundtrips: OK
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+++I nOiKt, Tpeasstsse
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d 1 0i0n0i tt:e sts.
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prop_viewedFile_rountrips: FAIL
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*** Failed! Falsifiable (after 51 tests and 1 shrink):
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"a:"
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Use --quickcheck-replay '50 592211036 1831676953' to reproduce.
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Unit Tests
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add sha1dup: init test repo
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Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
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Disabling ssh connection caching.
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and
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OK
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info: Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
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Disabling ssh connection caching.
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Detected a crippled filesystem.
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Enabling direct mode.
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git-annex: Data.BloomFilter.Util.suggestSizing: capacity too large to represent
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FAIL
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Exception: user error (git-annex ["info","--json"] exited 1)
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version: Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
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Disabling ssh connection caching.
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Detected a crippled filesystem.
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Enabling direct mode.
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git-annex version: 5.20140908-g378fbb1
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build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA CryptoHash
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...Note the corruption. I think this happens when I drag the scroll bar while console output is being emitted. (msysgit's problem?) I would presume and hope that this is a "display only" issue.
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# Conclusion
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I hope this information is helpful. I've enabled the 'email comments to me' option on this post and I'd be happy to perform further tests upon request.
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Cheers!
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