diff --git a/doc/bugs/unusable_with_ghc_8.10.7_on_DragonFlyBSD.mdwn b/doc/bugs/unusable_with_ghc_8.10.7_on_DragonFlyBSD.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a30eeb33ad --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/unusable_with_ghc_8.10.7_on_DragonFlyBSD.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +On DragonflyBSD with git-annex built with ghc 8.10.7, a simple `git annex add` puts strange entries in the index, as shown: + +``` +copter-dfly tmp $ mkdir d +copter-dfly tmp $ cd d +copter-dfly d $ git init +Initialized empty Git repository in /home/falsifian/tmp/d/.git/ +copter-dfly d $ git annex init +init ok +(recording state in git...) +copter-dfly d $ echo test>f +copter-dfly d $ git annex add f +add f +ok +(recording state in git...) +copter-dfly d $ git status +On branch master + +No commits yet + +Changes to be committed: + (use "git rm --cached ..." to unstage) + new file: 30d/f3a/SHA256-s5--f2ca1bb6c7e907d06dafe4687e579fce76b37e4e93b7605022da52e6ccc26fd2.log + new file: f + new file: uuid.log + +Changes not staged for commit: + (use "git add/rm ..." to update what will be committed) + (use "git restore ..." to discard changes in working directory) + deleted: 30d/f3a/SHA256-s5--f2ca1bb6c7e907d06dafe4687e579fce76b37e4e93b7605022da52e6ccc26fd2.log + deleted: uuid.log + +copter-dfly d $ +``` + +Digging into it further with dfly people over IRC, it's been discovered: + +* The bug does not appear with ghc 8.10.5, with git-annex 20210903 or 20210223. +* But it consistently happens with ghc 8.10.7, with all the versions I tried. +* I also noticed that `git annex init` does not create the file `.git/annex/index` when the bug is present. + +Has anyone tried git-annex with ghc 8.10.7 on a different OS? + +I tried to figure out why `.git/annex/index` was not being created, but I had some trouble figuring out which line of code is supposed to create it. If someone could point me there I could do some further debugging to see why it isn't created.