webapp: Fix bugs that could result in a relative path such as "." being written to ~/.config/git-annex/autostart

and ignore any such  relative paths in the file

This was a reversion caused by the relative path changes in 5.20150113.

Assistant/WebApp/Configurators/Preferences.hs

@@ -118,5 +118,5 @@ postPreferencesR = page "Preferences" (Just Configuration) $ do
 
 inAutoStartFile :: Annex Bool
 inAutoStartFile = do
-	here <- fromRepo Git.repoPath
+	here <- liftIO . absPath =<< fromRepo Git.repoPath
 	any (`equalFilePath` here) <$> liftIO readAutoStartFile

Config/Files.hs

@@ -26,8 +26,11 @@ autoStartFile = userConfigFile "autostart"
 readAutoStartFile :: IO [FilePath]
 readAutoStartFile = do
 	f <- autoStartFile
-	nub . map dropTrailingPathSeparator . lines
+	filter valid . nub . map dropTrailingPathSeparator . lines
 		<$> catchDefaultIO "" (readFile f)
+  where
+	-- Ignore any relative paths; some old buggy versions added eg "."
+	valid = isAbsolute
 
 modifyAutoStartFile :: ([FilePath] -> [FilePath]) -> IO ()
 modifyAutoStartFile func = do
@@ -42,12 +45,16 @@ modifyAutoStartFile func = do
  - present, it's moved to the top, so it will be used as the default
  - when opening the webapp. -}
 addAutoStartFile :: FilePath -> IO ()
-addAutoStartFile path = modifyAutoStartFile $ (:) path
+addAutoStartFile path = do
+	path' <- absPath path
+	modifyAutoStartFile $ (:) path'
 
 {- Removes a directory from the autostart file. -}
 removeAutoStartFile :: FilePath -> IO ()
-removeAutoStartFile path = modifyAutoStartFile $
+removeAutoStartFile path = do
-	filter (not . equalFilePath path)
+	path' <- absPath path
+	modifyAutoStartFile $
+		filter (not . equalFilePath path')
 
 {- The path to git-annex is written here; which is useful when cabal
  - has installed it to some awful non-PATH location. -}

debian/changelog

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ git-annex (5.20151117) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * addurl, importfeed: Changed to honor annex.largefiles settings,
     when the content of the url is downloaded. (Not when using --fast or
     --relaxed.)
+  * webapp: Fix bugs that could result in a relative path such as "."
+    being written to ~/.config/git-annex/autostart, and ignore any such 
+    relative paths in the file.
+    This was a reversion caused by the relative path changes in 5.20150113.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:49:34 -0400
 

doc/bugs/A_weird___34__.__34___repository_shows_up_when_switching.mdwn

@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ there is nothing relevant to this error in there unfortunately.
 ### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)
 
 
+> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]

doc/bugs/A_weird___34__.__34___repository_shows_up_when_switching/comment_2_ffe8e30474e87e8cfa5aee2a3acb0952._comment

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 2"""
+ date="2015-12-02T19:36:14Z"
+ content="""
+Found this in the changelog:
+
+  * webapp: When adding another local repository, and combining it
+    with the current repository, the new repository's remote path
+    was set to "." rather than the path to the current repository.
+    This was a reversion caused by the relative path changes in 5.20150113.
+
+I guess this is a similar problem, although it seems that the "." in your case
+made it into `~/.config/git-annex/autostart`
+
+I found two ways to do that. One is to tell the webapp to make a repository, and
+enter "." as the repository location. The other, which is probably what you
+did, is to go to Configuration -> Preferences and uncheck "Auto start", save
+and then go back and check it. This wrongly puts in a "." instead of the full
+repo path.
+
+I've fixed all code paths to force absolute paths in the autostart file,
+and made any relative paths that got in there be ignored.
+"""]]