Introduced in version 10.20241031 that broke cloning from a special remote
retrieveKeyFile changed to use createAnnexDirectory, which means that the
path passed to it needs to be under .git
git-remote-annex is probably the only thing in git-annex where that was not
the case. And there's no real reason it cannot be the case with it either.
Just use withOtherTmp.
Since the annex-tracking-branch is pushed first, git-annex has already
updated the export database when the DATA-PRESENT arrives. Which means
that just using checkPresent is enough to verify that there is some file
on the special remote in the export location for the key.
So, the simplest possible implementation of this happened to work!
(I also tested it with chunked specialremotes, which also works, as long
as the chunk size used is the same as the configured chunk size. In that
case, the lack of a chunk log is not a problem. Doubtful this will ever
make sense to use with a chunked special remote though, that gets pretty
deep into re-implementing git-annex.)
Updated the client side upload tip with a missing step, and reorged for clarity.
Changed the protocol docs because servant parses "true" and "false" for
booleans in query parameters, not "1" and "0".
clientPut with datapresent=True is not used by git-annex, and I don't
anticipate it being used in git-annex, except for testing.
I've tested this by making clientPut be called with datapresent=True and
git-annex copy to a remote succeeds once the object file is first
manually copied to the remote. That would be a good test for the test
suite, but running the http client means exposing it to at least
localhost, and would fail if a real http client was already running on
that port.