This is no longer necessary, at least with msysgit 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0.
Its root cause may have been fixed by other recent git path fixes.
It was causing the webapp to fail to make repos on other drives.
This fixes the problem of the environment variables apparently not being
seen on Windows. I could probably remove the setting of the env vars from
Test.hs now as this covers it better.
Note that outside the test suite, git-annex on windows seems to manage to
configure the repo so commits work on its own.
On windows, the sync of the second cloned repo to origin failed, because
synced/master was a non-fast-forward. This may be a bug of its own, but
it's not the issue that this test was intended to test, so disconnect
the repos from origin before syncing.
Seems that locking of annexed objects when they're being dropped was broken
in direct mode:
* When taking the lock before dropping, it created the .git/annex/objects
file, as an empty file. It seems that the dropping code deleted that,
but that is not right, and for all I know could in some situation cause
a corrupted object to leak out.
* When the lock was checked, it actually tried to open each direct mode
file, and checked if it was locked. Not the same lock used above, and
could also fail if some consumer of the file locked it.
Fixed this, and added windows support by switching direct mode to lock a
.lck file.
transferkeys had used special FDs for communication, but that would be
quite annoying to do in Windows.
Instead, use stdin and stdout. But, to avoid commands like rsync stomping
on them and messing up the communications channel, they're duplicated to a
different handle; stdin is replaced with a null handle, and stdout is
replaced with a copy of stderr. This should all work in windows too.
Stopping in progress transfers may work on windows.. if the types unify
anyway. ;) May need some more porting.
