Improve behavior when a just added http remote is not available during uuid probe. Do not mark it as annex-ignore, so it will be tried again later.

Remote/Git.hs

@@ -233,14 +233,17 @@ tryGitConfigRead autoinit r
 			hClose h
 			let url = Git.repoLocation r ++ "/config"
 			ifM (Url.downloadQuiet url tmpfile uo)
-				( pipedconfig "git" [Param "config", Param "--null", Param "--list", Param "--file", File tmpfile]
-				, return $ Left $ error $ "unable to load config from " ++ url
+				( Just <$> pipedconfig "git" [Param "config", Param "--null", Param "--list", Param "--file", File tmpfile]
+				, return Nothing
 				)
 		case v of
-			Left _ -> do
+			Nothing -> do
+				warning $ "Failed to get annex.uuid configuration of repository " ++ Git.repoDescribe r
+				return r
+			Just (Left _) -> do
 				set_ignore "not usable by git-annex" False
 				return r
-			Right r' -> do
+			Just (Right r') -> do
 				-- Cache when http remote is not bare for
 				-- optimisation.
 				unless (Git.Config.isBare r') $

debian/changelog

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ git-annex (6.20160420) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Fix bug that sometimes prevented git-annex smudge --clean from consuming
     all its input, which resulted in git add bypassing git-annex.
   * Fix build with directory-1.2.6.2.
+  * Improve behavior when a just added http remote is not available
+    during uuid probe. Do not mark it as annex-ignore, so it will be tried
+    again later.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:17:04 -0400
 

doc/bugs/prematurely___40__can__39__t_check_offline__41___marks_remote_as_annex-ignore.mdwn

@@ -25,3 +25,5 @@ git-annex: get: 1 failed
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 [[!meta author=yoh]]
+
+> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]