This caused git to complain that filter-process failed and kill it with
signal 15. Because it wrote an extra flushPkt for an empty file, which
git did not expect, and so git saw an unexpected response to the next
request.
Luckily, filter-process is only used by default in v9 and up, and v8 is
still the default. Also, git had to be updating an empty file, followed
by another file, which is a fairly unlikely situation. And git restarts
filter-process after this happens and uses it to filter the rest of the
files. So this isn't a crippling bug.
Sponsored-by: Luke Shumaker on Patreon
filter-process: New command that can make git add/checkout faster when
there are a lot of unlocked annexed files or non-annexed files, but that
also makes git add of large annexed files slower.
Use it by running: git
config filter.annex.process 'git-annex filter-process'
Fully tested and working, but I have not benchmarked it at all.
And, incremental hashing is not done when git add uses it, so extra work is
done in that case.
Sponsored-by: Mark Reidenbach on Patreon
This module is not used yet, but the plan is to use it for smudge/clean
filtering, at least as an option. In some circumstances, using this
interface may perform better than the interface git-annex is currently
using.
Sponsored-by: Brock Spratlen on Patreon
