Avoiding such problems is one reason why git-annex does active
verification of other copies of a file when dropping.
You could argue that reusing the uuid of a trusted repository leads to
data loss, but that data loss doesn't really involve reusing the uuid,
but instead is caused by deleting a trusted repository. Using trusted
repositories without a great deal of care is a good way to blow off your
foot, of which deleting them is only the most obvious;
added some sections about that.
If reusing a repository uuid could result in data loss then I'd be on
board with making reinit run a fast fsck to update the location log, but
since it can't, I feel that is not worth forcing. Not a bad idea to run
fsck afterwards. Updated language about that.
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This way we know that after enable-tor, the tor hidden service is fully
published and working, and so there should be no problems with it at
pairing time.
It has to start up its own temporary listener on the hidden service. It
would be nice to have it start the remotedaemon running, so that extra
step is not needed afterwards. But, there may already be a remotedaemon
running, in communication with the assistant and we don't want to start
another one. I thought about trying to HUP any running remotedaemon, but
Windows does not make it easy to do that. In any case, having the user
start the remotedaemon themselves lets them know it needs to be running
to serve the hidden service.
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This reverts commit 3037feb1bf.
On second thought, this was an overcomplication of what should be the
lowest-level primitive. Let's build bi-directional links at the pairing
level with eg magic wormhole.
Both the local and remote git repositories get remotes added
pointing at one-another.
Makes pairing twice as easy!
Security: The new LINK command in the protocol can be sent repeatedly,
but only by a peer who has authenticated with us. So, it's entirely safe to
add a link back to that peer, or to some other peer it knows about.
Anything we receive over such a link, the peer could send us over the
current connection.
There is some risk of being flooded with LINKs, and adding too many
remotes. To guard against that, there's a hard cap on the number of remotes
that can be set up this way. This will only be a problem if setting up
large p2p networks that have exceptional interconnectedness.
A new, dedicated authtoken is created when sending LINK.
This also allows, in theory, using a p2p network like tor, to learn about
links on other networks, like telehash.
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