Its repeated opening and writing to the sqlite database somehow caused
inode cache information to occasionally be lost.
This loses code coverage, since running git-annex as a child process
prevents tracking what parts of the code are exercised. I have not looked
at the code coverage in a long time. It would probably be possible to
collect code coverage for the child procesess and merge it together.
Prompted by the test suite on windows failing to with "export foo failed"
and no information about what went wrong.
Note that only storeExportWithContentIdentifier has been converted.
storeExport still returns a Bool and so exceptions may be hidden.
However, storeExportWithContentIdentifier has many more failure modes,
since it needs to avoid overwriting modified files. So it's more
important it have better error display.
The test suite was intermittently failing with rsync complaining it
could not write to dest.
get foo (from origin...)
SHA256E-s20--e394a389d787383843decc5d3d99b6d184ffa5fddeec23b911f9ee7fc8b9ea77
20 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 ^M 20 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1)
(from origin...)
SHA256E-s20--e394a389d787383843decc5d3d99b6d184ffa5fddeec23b911f9ee7fc8b9ea77
20 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 ^M 20 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1)
rsync: open "/home/joey/src/git-annex/.t/tmprepo1103/.git/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s20--e394a389d787383843decc5d3d99b6d184ffa5fddeec23b911f9ee7fc8b9ea77" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]
It seems that the first rsync actually transferred the file, but then for some
reason git-annex thinks it failed, so it retries. The second rsync then fails
because the first rsync copied the file mode over and so the file is not
writable now.
So, this fixes that problem, but leaves open the question of why git-annex
would think rsync failed when it wrote the file and didn't output any
error message. Possibly a bug in rsyncProgress that either hides an
error message, or somehow makes rsync unhappy?