However, filepath-bytestring is still in Setup-Depends.
That's because Utility.OsPath uses it when not built with OsPath.
It would be maybe possible to make Utility.OsPath fall back to using
filepath, and eliminate that dependency too, but it would mean either
wrapping all of System.FilePath's functions, or using `type OsPath = FilePath`
Annex.Import uses ifdefs to avoid converting back to FilePath when not
on windows. On windows it's a bit slower due to that conversion.
Utility.Path.Windows.convertToWindowsNativeNamespace got a bit
slower too, but not really worth optimising I think.
Note that importing Utility.FileSystemEncoding at the same time as
System.Posix.ByteString will result in conflicting definitions for
RawFilePath. filepath-bytestring avoids that by importing RawFilePath
from System.Posix.ByteString, but that's not possible in
Utility.FileSystemEncoding, since Setup-Depends does not include unix.
This turned out not to affect any code in git-annex though.
Sponsored-by: Leon Schuermann
Fix a crash opening sqlite databases when run in a non-unicode locale,
with a remote that uses a non-unicode filepath. In that situation
converting to Text fails.
The fix needs git-annex to be built with persistent-sqlite 2.13.3.
Building against older versions still works, but that version is used when
building with stack.
Database.RawFilePath is a lot of code copied from persistent-sqlite and
lightly modified, since only 1 function in persistent-sqlite was made to
support RawFilePath. This is a bit of a pain, and I hope that
persistent-sqlite will eventually switch to using OsPath, allowing this
module to be removed from git-annex.
Sponsored-by: k0ld on Patreon
