This bug caused broken tree objects to get built by a later git annex sync.
This is a somewhat unlikely but not impossible situation, and the test
suite's union_merge_regression test tickled it when it was run on FAT.
Mostly the username is only used for the git committer or other display
purposes, and we can just fall back to a dummy value in these cases.
The only remaining place where an error is thrown is when starting local
pairing, which needs the username to be known.
The queue could potentially contain changes from before withAltRepo, and
get flushed inside the call, which would apply the changes to the modified
repo.
Or, changes could be queued in withAltRepo that were intended to affect
the modified repo, but don't get flushed until later.
I don't know of any cases where either happens, but better safe than sorry.
Note that this affect withIndexFile, which is used in git-annex branch
updates. So, it potentially makes things slower. Should not be by much;
the overhead consists only of querying the current queue a couple of times,
and potentially flushing changes queued within withAltRepo earlier, that
could have maybe been bundled with other later changes.
Notice in particular that the existing queue is not flushed when calling
withAltRepo. So eg when git annex add needs to stage files in the index,
it will still bundle them together efficiently.
Added guard in Annex.Transfer to prevent this problem at a deeper level.
I'm unhappy ith NoUUID, but having Maybe UUID instead wouldn't help either
if nothing checked that there was a UUID. Since there legitimately need to
be Remotes that do not have a UUID, I can't see a way to fix it at the type
level, short making there be two separate types of Remotes.
Removed the instance LensGpgEncParams RemoteConfig because it encouraged
code that does not take the RemoteGitConfig into account.
RemoteType's setup was changed to take a RemoteGitConfig,
although the only place that is able to provide a non-empty one is
enableremote, when it's changing an existing remote. This led to several
folow-on changes, and got RemoteGitConfig plumbed through.
This is actually worse than I thought; when git is being run with a
detached work tree, GIT_INDEX_FILE is treated as a path relative to CWD,
instead of the normal behavior of relative the top of the work tree.
This seems to make it basically impossible for any program that wants to
use GIT_INDEX_FILE to use anything other than an absolute path to it; there
are too many configurations to keep straight that can change how git
interprets what should be a simple relative path to a file.
(I have complained to the git developers.)
This affected git annex view. It turns out that some other places
that use GIT_INDEX_FILE were already working around the bug. I removed the
workaround from Annex.Branch since the new workaround will do.
Could not think of a foolproof way to detect if the old adjusted branch was
just behind the current branch. It's possible that the user amended the
adjusting commit at the head of the adjusted branch, for example.
I decided to bail in this situation, instead of just entering the old
branch, so that if git annex adjust succeeds the user is always in a
*current* adjusted branch, not some old and out of date one.
What could perhaps be done is enter the old branch and then update it. But
that seems too magical; the user may have rebased master or something or
may not want to propigate the changes from the old branch. Best to error
out.
It started exporting a isSymbolicLink which supports windows. But,
git-annex does no use symlinks on windows yet and this conflicts with the
function by the same name from unix-compat, so hide it.
git 2.8.1 (or perhaps 2.9.0) is going to prevent git merge from merging in
unrelated branches. Since the webapp's pairing etc features often combine
together repositories with unrelated histories, work around this behavior
change by setting GIT_MERGE_ALLOW_UNRELATED_HISTORIES when the assistant
merges.
Note though that this is not done for git annex sync's merges, so
it will follow git's default or configured behavior.
When git-annex is used with a git version older than 2.2.0, disable support for
adjusted branches, since GIT_COMMON_DIR is needed to update them and was first
added in that version of git.
Made all Annex.Perms file mode changing functions ignore errors when
core.sharedRepository is set, because the file might be owned by someone
else. I don't fancy getting bug reports about crashes due to set modes in
this configuration, which is a very foot-shooty configuration in the first
place.
The fsck warning is necessary because old repos kept files mode 444, which
doesn't allow locking them, and so if the mode remains 444 due to the file
being owned by someone else, the user should be told about it.
When annex.thin is set, adding an object will add the execute bits to the
work tree file, and this does mean that the annex object file ends up
executable.
This doesn't add any complexity that wasn't already present, because git
annex add of an executable file has always ingested it so that the annex
object ends up executable.
But, since an annex object file can be executable or not, when populating
an unlocked file from one, the executable bit is always added or removed
to match the mode of the pointer file.
This is how direct mode does it too, and somehow, for reasons that
currently escape me, this makes git merge not care if it's run with an
empty work tree.
Was using L.readFile, so the Handle would remain open until the garbage
collector got around to it. Changed to explicit open and close, so we know
it's always closed when the function returns.
