By definition, a trusted repository is trusted to always have its location
tracking log accurate. Thus, it should never be in a position where content
is being dropped from it concurrently, as that would result in the location
tracking log not being accurate.
This avoids a failure where eg, we start with RecentlyVerifiedCopies
for all remotes, and so didn't do any active verification, which is
required.
Also, dedup the list of VerifiedCopies when checking if we have enough,
in case 2 copies of a UUID slip in.
See doc/bugs/concurrent_drop--from_presence_checking_failures.mdwn for
discussion about why 1 locked copy is all we can require, and how this
fixes concurrent dropping bugs.
Note that, since nothing yet generates a VerifiedCopyLock yet, this commit
breaks dropping temporarily.
There should be no behavior changes in this commit, it just adds a more
expressive data type and adjusts code that had been passing around a [UUID]
or sometimes a Maybe Remote to instead use [VerifiedCopy].
Although, since some functions were taking two different [UUID] lists,
there's some potential for me to have gotten it horribly wrong.
Also, rename lockContent to lockContentExclusive
inAnnexSafe should perhaps be eliminated, and instead use
`lockContentShared inAnnex`. However, I'm waiting on that, as there are
only 2 call sites for inAnnexSafe and it's fiddly.
In c6632ee5c8, it actually only handled
uploading objects to a shared repository. To avoid verification when
downloading objects from a shared repository, was a lot harder.
On the plus side, if the process of downloading a file from a remote
is able to verify its content on the side, the remote can indicate this
now, and avoid the extra post-download verification.
As of yet, I don't have any remotes (except Git) using this ability.
Some more work would be needed to support it in special remotes.
It would make sense for tahoe to implicitly verify things downloaded from it;
as long as you trust your tahoe server (which typically runs locally),
there's cryptographic integrity. OTOH, despite bup being based on shas,
a bup repo under an attacker's control could have the git ref used for an
object changed, and so a bup repo shouldn't implicitly verify. Indeed,
tahoe seems unique in being trustworthy enough to implicitly verify.
* When annex objects are received into git repositories, their checksums are
verified then too.
* To get the old, faster, behavior of not verifying checksums, set
annex.verify=false, or remote.<name>.annex-verify=false.
* setkey, rekey: These commands also now verify that the provided file
matches the key, unless annex.verify=false.
* reinject: Already verified content; this can now be disabled by
setting annex.verify=false.
recvkey and reinject already did verification, so removed now duplicate
code from them. fsck still does its own verification, which is ok since it
does not use getViaTmp, so verification doesn't happen twice when using fsck
--from.
I couldn't find a good way to make an *empty* index file (zero byte file
won't do), so I punted and just don't make index.lock when there's no index
yet. This means some other git process could race and write an index file
at the same time as the merge is ongoing, in theory. Only happens in new
repos though.
Oh boy, not again. So, another place that the filesystem encoding needs to
be applied. Yay.
In passing, I changed decodeBS so if a NUL is embedded in the input, the
resulting FilePath doesn't get truncated at that NUL. This was needed to
make prop_b64_roundtrips pass, and on reviewing the callers of decodeBS, I
didn't see any where this wouldn't make sense. When a FilePath is used to
operate on the filesystem, it'll get truncated at a NUL anyway, whereas if
a String is being used for something else, it might conceivably have a NUL
in it, and we wouldn't want it to get truncated when going through
decodeBS.
(NB: There may be a speed impact from this change.)
I think that the problem was caused by windows not having a concept of an
env var that is set, but to the empty string. So, GIT_ANNEX_SSHOPTION
got set to "" and was not seen as set at all.
Easy fix, which also makes git-annex sync a little faster is to not set
GIT_SSH, when GIT_ANNEX_SSHOPTION has no options. Might as well let git use
ssh per usual in this case, no need to run git-annex as the proxy ssh
command..
* proxy: Fix proxy git commit of non-annexed files in direct mode.
* proxy: If a non-proxied git command, such as git revert
would normally fail because of unstaged files in the work tree,
make the proxied command fail the same way.
* Perform a clean shutdown when --time-limit is reached.
This includes running queued git commands, and cleanup actions normally
run when a command is finished.
* fsck: Commit incremental fsck database when --time-limit is reached.
Previously, some of the last files fscked did not make it into the
database when using --time-limit.
Note that this changes Annex.addCleanup hooks, to run after --time-limit
expires. Fsck was using such a hook to clean up after a
--incremental-schedule, and that shouldn't run when --time-limit exipires
it. So, instead, moved that cleanup code to be run by cleanupIncremental.
Resulted in some data type juggling.
This is needed because when preferred content matches on files,
the second pass would otherwise want to drop all keys. Using a bloom filter
avoids this, and in the case of a false positive, a key will be left
undropped that preferred content would allow dropping. Chances of that
happening are a mere 1 in 1 million.
This makes git annex unused use around 48 mb more memory than it did before,
but the massive increase in accuracy makes this worthwhile for all but the
smallest systems.
Also, I want to use the bloom filter for sync --all --content, to avoid
dropping files that the preferred content doesn't want, and 1/1000
false positives would be far too many in that use case, even if it were
acceptable for unused.
Actual memory use numbers:
1000: 21.06user 3.42system 0:26.40elapsed 92%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 501552maxresident)k
1000000: 21.41user 3.55system 0:26.84elapsed 93%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 549496maxresident)k
10000000: 21.84user 3.52system 0:27.89elapsed 90%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 549920maxresident)k
Based on these numbers, 10 million seemed a better pick than 1 million.
This removes a bit of complexity, and should make things faster
(avoids tokenizing Params string), and probably involve less garbage
collection.
In a few places, it was useful to use Params to avoid needing a list,
but that is easily avoided.
Problems noticed while doing this conversion:
* Some uses of Params "oneword" which was entirely unnecessary
overhead.
* A few places that built up a list of parameters with ++
and then used Params to split it!
Test suite passes.
The content file may not be owned by the user running git-annex, in which
case, setting the owner write bit was not enough to let lockContent
act on the file. However, with some core.sharedRepository configs, the file
should be writable by the user's group. So, the thing to do is to call
thawContent on it.
It was returning Just False in this situation, which differed from indirect
mode behavior. I don't think this led to any actual problems; things that
checked if the file being dropped was present just failed to fail, and
instead reported it wasn't present, possibly incorrectly.
Hmm, it's possible that this could have made git annex fsck --from remote
update the location log wrongly, if a remote was in direct mode, and was in
the middle of trying to drop a key, and the drop later failed.
Also cleaned up the code, avoiding creating a lock file if we're going to
open it for create later anyway.
And, if there's an exception while preparing to lock the file, but not at
the point of actually taking the lock, throw an exception, instead of
silently not locking and pretending to succeed.
And, on Windows, always use lock file, even if the repo somehow got into
indirect mode (maybe with cygwin git..)
The one exception is in Utility.Daemon. As long as a process only
daemonizes once, which seems reasonable, and as long as it avoids calling
checkDaemon once it's already running as a daemon, the fcntl locking
gotchas won't be a problem there.
Annex.LockFile has it's own separate lock pool layer, which has been
renamed to LockCache. This is a persistent cache of locks that persist
until closed.
This is not quite done; lockContent stil needs to be converted.
Should be no behavior changes, just simplified code.
The only actual difference is it doesn't truncate the lock file.
I think that was a holdover from when transfer info was written to the lock
file.
Only the assistant uses these, and only the assistant cleans them up, so
make only git annex transferkeys write them,
There is one behavior change from this. If glacier is being used, and a
manual git annex get --from glacier fails because the file isn't available
yet, the assistant will no longer later see that failed transfer file and
retry the get. Hope no-one depended on that old behavior.
The setDifferences that got added to initialize turns out to make a git
commit, and before ensureCommit has been used. Thus, repo init can fail
when the system has a broken hostname etc.
Move the ensureCommit to the very first thing to avoid this kind of breakage.
This works, and seems fairly robust. Clean get of 20 files at -J3. At -J10,
there are some messages about ssh multiplexing, probably due to a race
spinning up the ssh connection cacher. But, it manages to get all the files
ok regardless.
The progress bars are a scrambled mess though, due to bugs in
ascii-progress, which I've already filed. Particularly this one:
https://github.com/yamadapc/haskell-ascii-progress/issues/8
Came up with a generic way to filter out progress messages while keeping
errors, for commands that use stderr for both.
--json mode will disable command outputs too.
This might be overkill; I only know I need it in ls-files, but other git
commands can also do their own globbing, it turns out, and I am pretty sure
I never want them too when git-annex is using them as plumbing.
Test suite still passes and it looks ok.
This was introduced by commit 450ee53ab6
However, the same problem could affect other calls to programPath,
specifically some on the assistant. So, I fixed it at a deeper level.
Seems to work, but still experimental until it's been tested more.
When repositories are on filesystems not supporting symlinks, the .git dir
symlink trick cannot be used. Since we're going to be in direct mode
anyway, the .git dir symlink is not strictly needed.
However, I have not fixed the code that creates new annex symlinks to
handle this case -- the committed symlinks will be wrong.
git annex sync happens to currently fail in a submodule using direct mode,
because there's no HEAD ref. That also needs to be dealt with to get
this fully working in crippled filesystems.
Leaving http://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/44 open until these issues
are dealt with.
Most of the time, there will be no discreprancy between programPath and
readProgramFile.
But, the programFile might have been written by an old version of git-annex
that is still installed, while a newer one is currently running. In this
case, we want to run the same one that's currently running.
This is especially important for things like the GIT_SSH=git-annex used for
ssh connection caching.
The only code that still uses readProgramFile directly is the upgrade code,
which needs to know where the standalone git-annex was installed, in order to
upgrade it.
Turns out sqlite does not like having its database deleted out from
underneath it. It might suffice to empty the table, but I would rather
start each fsck over with a new database, so I added a lock file, and
running incremental fscks use a shared lock.
This leaves one concurrency bug left; running two concurrent fsck --more
will lead to: "SQLite3 returned ErrorBusy while attempting to perform step."
and one or both will fail. This is a concurrent writers problem.
* sync: Use the ssh-options git config when doing git pull and push.
* remotedaemon: Use the ssh-options git config.
Note that the rename env var means that if a new git-annex calls an old one
for git-annex ssh, or a new calls an old, nothing much will go wrong;
just ssh caching won't happen.
I hope this doesn't impact speed much -- it does have to pull out a value
from Annex state every time it accesses the branch now.
The test case I dropped has never caught any problems that I can remember,
and would have been rather difficult to convert.
Eliminated complexity and future proofed. The most important change is that
all functions over Difference are now total; any Difference that can be
expressed should be handled. Avoids needs for sanity checking of inputs,
and version skew with the future.
Also, the difference.log now serializes a [Difference], not a Differences.
This saves space and keeps it simpler.
Note that [Difference] might contain conflicting differences (eg,
[Version5, Version6]. In this case, one of them needs to consistently win
over the others, probably based on Ord.
* init: Repository tuning parameters can now be passed when initializing a
repository for the first time. For details, see
http://git-annex.branchable.com/tuning/
* merge: Refuse to merge changes from a git-annex branch of a repo
that has been tuned in incompatable ways.
This is necessary for interop between inode caches created on unix and
windows. Which is more important than supporting inodecaches for large keys
with the wrong size, which are broken anyway.
There should be no slowdown from this change, except on Windows.
Avoid using fileSize which maxes out at just 2 gb on Windows.
Instead, use hFileSize, which doesn't have a bounded size.
Fixes support for files > 2 gb on Windows.
Note that the InodeCache code only needs to compare a file size,
so it doesn't matter it the file size wraps. So it has been
left as-is. This was necessary both to avoid invalidating existing inode
caches, and because the code passed FileStatus around and would have become
more expensive if it called getFileSize.
This commit was sponsored by Christian Dietrich.
Reverts 965e106f24
Unfortunately, this caused breakage on Windows, and possibly elsewhere,
because parentDir and takeDirectory do not behave the same when there is a
trailing directory separator.
parentDir is less safe than takeDirectory, especially when working
with relative FilePaths. It's really only useful in loops that
want to terminate at /
This commit was sponsored by Audric SCHILTKNECHT.
This fixes 9 test suite failures. There are some tricky things going on
with the paths to the index file, and git's working directory, which
are hard to get right with relative paths. So, I switched back to absolute
here, at least for now.
Only 2 test suite failures remain on this branch, but there are other
potential problems the test suite doesn't catch. Including some calls to
setCurrentDirectory -- I was wrong and git-annex does do that in a few
places, like when generating a view.
This allows the git repository to be moved while git-annex is running in
it, with fewer problems.
On Windows, this avoids some of the problems with the absurdly small
MAX_PATH of 260 bytes. In particular, git-annex repositories should
work in deeper/longer directory structures than before. See
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/__34__git-annex:_direct:_1_failed__34___on_Windows/
There are several possible ways this change could break git-annex:
1. If it changes its working directory while it's running, that would
be Bad News. Good news everyone! git-annex never does so. It would also
break thread safety, so all such things were stomped out long ago.
2. parentDir "." -> "" which is not a valid path. I had to fix one
instace of this, and I should probably wipe all calls to parentDir out
of the git-annex code base; it was never a good idea.
3. Things like relPathDirToFile require absolute input paths,
and code assumes that the git repo path is absolute and passes it to it
as-is. In the case of relPathDirToFile, I converted it to not make
this assumption.
Currently, the test suite has 16 failures.
This allows bypassing the direct mode guard in a safe way to do all sorts
of things including git revert, git mv, git checkout ...
This commit was sponsored by the WikiMedia Foundation.
Didn't know that this library existed!
This includes making git-annex not re-exec itself on start on windows, and
making the test suite on Windows run tests without forking.
Added a Default instance for TrustLevel, and was able to use that to clear
up several other parts of the code too.
This commit was sponsored by Stephan Schulz
Found these with:
git grep "^ " $(find -type f -name \*.hs) |grep -v ': where'
Unfortunately there is some inline hamlet that cannot use tabs for
indentation.
Also, Assistant/WebApp/Bootstrap3.hs is a copy of a module and so I'm
leaving it as-is.
This fixes all instances of " \t" in the code base. Most common case
seems to be after a "where" line; probably vim copied the two space layout
of that line.
Done as a background task while listening to episode 2 of the Type Theory
podcast.
* New annex.hardlink setting. Closes: #758593
* init: Automatically detect when a repository was cloned with --shared,
and set annex.hardlink=true, as well as marking the repository as
untrusted.
Had to reorganize Logs.Trust a bit to avoid a cycle between it and
Annex.Init.
This avoids cp -a overriding the default mode acls that the user might have
set in a git repository.
With GNU cp, this behavior change should not be a breaking change, because
git-anex also uses rsync sometimes in the same situation, and has only ever
preserved timestamps when using rsync.
Systems without GNU cp will no longer use cp -a, but instead just cp.
So, timestamps will no longer be preserved. Preserving timestamps when
copying between repos is not guaranteed anyway.
Closes: #729757
This fixed one bug where it needed to be and wasn't (in Assistant.Unused).
And also found one place where lockContent was used unnecessarily (by
drop --from remote).
A few other places like uninit probably don't really need to lockContent,
but it doesn't hurt to do call it anyway.
This commit was sponsored by David Wagner.
Also fixes a test suite failures introduced in recent commits, where
inAnnexSafe failed in indirect mode, since it tried to open the lock file
ReadWrite. This is why the new checkLocked opens it ReadOnly.
This commit was sponsored by Chad Horohoe.
The nice refactoring in ec7dd0446a
highlighted a bug in lockContent -- when the content is not present,
this incorrectly created an empty lock file, using the same filename
as the content file.
This seems like it could result in empty objects, which fsck would detect
and complain about. Both drop and move --to call lockContent, as does
Remote.Git.dropKey -- I think we got lucky and this bug didn't show up
because both all of those only operate on files that are present. So
this bug could only manifest if there was a race, and a file's content
was dropped at just the wrong time, just as another process was about to
drop it. (And then only if the other process's dropping failed, otherwise
it'd delete the empty object file.)
Hmm, move --from also called lockContent. Unnecessarily, since the content
is not being removed from the local annex. In this case, the combination of
the 2 bugs could result in an empty lock file being written, and then if
the download of the content failed, left in the object directory as the
content.
This commit also optimises lockContent, avoiding an unncessary
doesFileExist test and instead just catching the exception that's thrown
when the file doesn't exist.
This commit was sponsored by Justine Lam.
Added a convenience Utility.LockFile that is not a windows/posix
portability shim, but still manages to cut down on the boilerplate around
locking.
This commit was sponsored by Johan Herland.
This was a bug, but it was only used for ssh locks and by the hook special
remote locking. At least in the case of ssh locks, the lock files happened
to already exist before this tried to use them, so the bug didn't cause
anything to break.
This does mean that eg, copying multiple files to a local remote will
become slightly slower, since it now restarts git-cat-file after each copy.
Should not be significant slowdown.
The reason git-cat-file is run on the remote at all is to update its
location log. In order to add an item to it, it needs to get the current
content of the log. Finding a way to avoid needing to do that would be a
good path to avoiding this slowdown if it does become a problem somehow.
This commit was sponsored by Evan Deaubl.
(With the exception of daemon pid locking.)
This fixes at part of #758630. I reproduced the assistant locking eg, a
removable drive's annex journal lock file and forking a long-running
git-cat-file process that inherited that lock.
This did not affect Windows.
Considered doing a portable Utility.LockFile layer, but git-annex uses
posix locks in several special ways that have no direct Windows equivilant,
and it seems like it would mostly be a complication.
This commit was sponsored by Protonet.
replaceFileOr was broken and ran the rollback action always.
Luckily, for replaceFile, the rollback action was safe to run, since it
just nuked a temp file that had already been moved into place.
However, when `git annex direct` used replaeFileOr, its rollback printed a
scary message:
/home/joey/tmp/rrrr/.git/annex/misctmp/tmp32268: rename: does not exist (No such file or directory)
There was actually no bad result though.
Removed old extensible-exceptions, only needed for very old ghc.
Made webdav use Utility.Exception, to work after some changes in DAV's
exception handling.
Removed Annex.Exception. Mostly this was trivial, but note that
tryAnnex is replaced with tryNonAsync and catchAnnex replaced with
catchNonAsync. In theory that could be a behavior change, since the former
caught all exceptions, and the latter don't catch async exceptions.
However, in practice, nothing in the Annex monad uses async exceptions.
Grepping for throwTo and killThread only find stuff in the assistant,
which does not seem related.
Command.Add.undo is changed to accept a SomeException, and things
that use it for rollback now catch non-async exceptions, rather than
only IOExceptions.
For example, I had a copy to a remote that was failing for an unknown
reason. This let me see the exception was createDirectory: permission
denied; the underlying problem being a permissions issue.
Putting a callback in the Retriever type allows for the callback to
remove the retrieved file when it's done with it.
I did not really want to make Retriever be fixed to Annex Bool,
but when I tried to use Annex a, I got into some type of type mess.
Needed for eg, Remote.External.
Generally, any Retriever that stores content in a file is responsible for
updating the meter, while ones that procude a lazy bytestring cannot update
the meter, so are not asked to.
Slightly tricky as they are not normal UUIDBased logs, but are instead maps
from (uuid, chunksize) to chunkcount.
This commit was sponsored by Frank Thomas.
I think this is a git behavior change, but have not checked to be sure.
Conflict cruft used to look like $foo~HEAD, but now just $foo is left
behind as conflict cruft.
With test case.
Running `git annex direct` would cause loss of data, because the object
was moved to a temp file, which it then tried to replace the work tree file
with, and on failure, the temp file got deleted. Now it's instead moved
back into the annex object location.
Minor because normally only 1 FD is leaked per git-annex run. However,
the test suite leaks a few hundred FDs, and this broke it on the Debian
autobuilders, which seem to have a tigher than usual ulimit.
The leak was introduced by the lazy getDirectoryContents' that was
introduced in e6330988dd in order to scale to
millions of journal files -- if the lazy list was never fully consumed, the
directory handle did not get closed.
Instead, pull in openDirectory/readDirectory/closeDirectory code that I
already developed and submitted in a patch to the haskell directory library
earlier. Using this in journalDirty avoids the place that the lazy list
caused a problem. And using it in stageJournal eliminates the need for
getDirectoryContents'.
The getJournalFiles* functions are switched back to using the regular
strict getDirectoryContents. I'm not sure if those always consume the whole
list, so this avoids any leak. And the things that call those are things
like git annex unused, which also look at every file committed to the
git-annex branch, so would need more work to scale to insane numbers of
files anyway.
When one side is an annexed symlink, and the other side is a non-annexed symlink.
In this case, git-merge does not replace the annexed symlink in the work
tree with the non-annexed symlink, which is different from it's handling of
conflicts between annexed symlinks and regular files or directories.
So, while git-annex generated the correct merge commit, the work tree
didn't get updated to reflect it.
See comments on bug for additional analysis.
Did not add this to the test suite yet; just unloaded a truckload of firewood
and am feeling lazy.
This commit was sponsored by Adam Spiers.
Eg after git-annex add has run on 2 million files in one go.
Slightly unhappy with the neeed to use a temp file here, but I cannot see
any other alternative (see comments on the bug report).
This commit was sponsored by Hamish Coleman.
Support users who have set commit.gpgsign, by disabling gpg signatures for
git-annex branch commits and commits made by the assistant.
The thinking here is that a user sets commit.gpgsign intending the commits
that they manually initiate to be gpg signed. But not commits made in the
background, whether by a deamon or implicitly to the git-annex branch.
gpg signing those would be at best a waste of CPU and at worst would fail,
or flood the user with gpg passphrase prompts, or put their signature on
changes they did not directly do.
See Debian bug #753720.
Also makes all commits done by git-annex go through a few central control
points, to make such changes easier in future.
Also disables commit.gpgsign in the test suite.
This commit was sponsored by Antoine Boegli.
When annex.genmetadata is set, metadata from the feed is added to files
that are imported from it.
Reused the same feedtitle and itemtitle, feedauthor, itemauthor, etc names
that are used in --template.
Also added title and author, which are the item title/author if available,
falling back to the feed title/author. These are more likely to be common
metadata fields.
(There is a small bit of dupication here, but once git gets
around to packing the object, it will compress it away.)
The itempubdate field is not included in the metadata as a string; instead
it is used to generate year and month fields, same as is done when adding
files with annex.genmetadata set.
This commit was sponsored by Amitai Schlair, who cooincidentially
is responsible for ikiwiki generating nice feed metadata!
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=140262402204212&w=2
This git bug manifested on FAT and Windows as the test suite failing in 3
places. All involved merge conflict resolution. It turned out that the
associated file mappings were getting messed up, and that happened because
this git bug lost track of what files were supposed to be symlinks.
This commit was sponsored by Eric Kidd.
Rather than calculating the TSDelta once, and caching it, this now
reads the inode sential file's InodeCache file once, and then each time a
new InodeCache is generated, looks at the sentinal file to get the current
delta.
This way, if the time zone changes while git-annex is running, it will
adapt.
This adds some inneffiency, but only on Windows, and only 1 stat per new
file added. The worst innefficiency is that `git annex status` and
`git annex sync` will now (on Windows) stat the inode sentinal file once per
file in the repo.
It would be more efficient to use getCurrentTimeZone, rather than needing
to stat the sentinal file. This should be easy to do, once the time
package gets my bugfix patch.
This commit was sponsored by Jürgen Lüters.
On Windows, changing the time zone causes the apparent mtime of files to
change. This confuses git-annex, which natually thinks this means the files
have actually been modified (since THAT'S WHAT A MTIME IS FOR, BILL <sheesh>).
Work around this stupidity, by using the inode sentinal file to detect if
the timezone has changed, and calculate a TSDelta, which will be applied
when generating InodeCaches.
This should add no overhead at all on unix. Indeed, I sped up a few
things slightly in the refactoring.
Seems to basically work! But it has a big known problem:
If the timezone changes while the assistant (or a long-running command)
runs, it won't notice, since it only checks the inode cache once, and
so will use the old delta for all new inode caches it generates for new
files it's added. Which will result in them seeming changed the next time
it runs.
This commit was sponsored by Vincent Demeester.
It was possible for a interrupted sync or merge in direct mode to
leave the work tree out of sync with the last recorded commit.
This would result in the next commit seeing files missing from the work
tree, and committing their removal.
Now, a direct mode merge happens not only in a throwaway work tree, but using
a temporary index file, and without any commits or index changes
being made until the real work tree has been updated. If the merge is
interrupted, the work tree may have some updated files, but worst case a
commit will redundantly commit changes that come from the merge.
This commit was sponsored by Tony Cantor.
There was a tricky bit here, when it does combine, the edit form is shown,
and so the info needs to be committed to the new repository, but then
pulled into the current one. And caches need to be invalidated for it
to be visible in the edit form.
Allow any encoding to be used, as with filenames (but utf8 is the sane
choice). Affects metadata and repository descriptions, and preferred
content expressions.
The question of what's the right encoding for the git-annex branch is a
vexing one. utf-8 would be a nice choice, but this leaves the possibility
of bad data getting into a git-annex branch somehow, and this resulting in
git-annex crashing with encoding errors, which is a failure mode I want to
avoid.
(Also, preferred content expressions can refer to filenames, and filenames
can have any encoding, so limiting to utf-8 would not be ideal.)
The union merge code already took care to not assume any encoding for a
file. Except it assumes that any \n is a literal newline, and not part of
some encoding of a character that happens to contain a newline. (At least
utf-8 avoids using newline for anything except liternal newlines.)
Adapted the git-annex branch code to use this same approach.
Note that there is a potential interop problem with Windows, since
FileSystemEncoding doesn't work there, and instead things are always
decoded as utf-8. If someone uses non-utf8 encoding for data on the
git-annex branch, this can lead to an encoding error on windows. However,
this commit doesn't actually make that any worse, because the union merge
code would similarly fail with an encoding error on windows in that
situation.
This commit was sponsored by Kyle Meyer.
To use, set GIT_ANNEX_SSHASKPASS to point to a fifo or regular file
(FIFO is better, avoids touching disk or multiple readers) that contains
the password. Then set SSH_ASKPASS=git-annex, and when ssh runs it, it will
tell ssh the password.
This is not yet used..
Only fsck and reinject and the test suite used the Backend, and they can
look it up as needed from the Key. This simplifies the code and also speeds
it up.
There is a small behavior change here. Before, all commands would warn when
acting on an annexed file with an unknown backend. Now, only fsck and
reinject show that warning.
For sync, saves 1 ssh connection per remote. For remotedaemon, the same
ssh connection that is already open to run git-annex-shell notifychanges
is reused to pull from the remote.
Only potential problem is that this also enables connection caching
when the assistant syncs with a ssh remote. Including the sync it does
when a network connection has just come up. In that case, cached ssh
connections are likely to be stale, and so using them would hang.
Until I'm sure such problems have been dealt with, this commit needs to
stay on the remotecontrol branch, and not be merged to master.
This commit was sponsored by Alexandre Dupas.
Motivation: Hook scripts for nautilus or other file managers
need to provide the user with feedback that a file is being downloaded.
This commit was sponsored by THM Schoemaker.
Note that this is a nearly entirely free feature. The data was already
stored in the metadata log in an easily accessible way, and already was
parsed to a time when parsing the log. The generation of the metadata
fields may even be done lazily, although probably not entirely (the map
has to be evaulated to when queried).
For example "standard or (include=otherdir/*)" or even "not standard"
Note that the implementation avoids any potential for loops (if a
standard preferred content expression itself mentioned standard).
This commit was sponsored by Jochen Bartl.
Old ssh did not check the hostname passed to -O stop, so I had used "any".
But now ssh does check it! I think this happened as part of the client-side
hostname canonicalization changes in 6.5p1, but have not verified that
introduced the problem.
The symptom was that it would try to dns lookup "any", which often caused a
bit of a delay at shutdown. And the old ssh connection kept running, so
it would do it over and over again.
Fixed by using localhost, which hopefully reliably resolves to some address
that ssh will accept.. Also nukeFile the socket after ssh has been asked to
shutdown, just in case.
unused: In direct mode, files that are deleted from the work tree are no longer incorrectly detected as unused.
Direct mode `git annex info` slows down a bit due to more stringent
checking, but not by a lot.
This is a new feature, it was not handled before, since it's a bit of an
edge case. However, it can be handled exactly the same as a file/dir
conflict, just leave the non-annexed item alone.
While implementing this, the core resolveMerge' function got a lot simpler
and clearer. Note especially that where before there was an asymetric call to
stagefromdirectmergedir, now graftin is called symmetrically in both cases.
And, in order to add that `graftin us`, the current branch needed to be
known (if there is no current branch, there cannot be a merge conflict).
This led to some cleanups of how autoMergeFrom behaved when there is no
current branch.
This commit was sponsored by Philippe Gauthier.
Added test cases for both ways this can happen, with a conflict involving a
file, or a directory.
Cleaned up resolveMerge to not touch the work tree in direct mode, which
turned out to be the only way to handle things.. And makes it much nicer.
Still need to run test suite on windows.
In the case of a conflicted merge where the remote adds a directory, and we
have a file (which is checked in), resolveMerge' will create the link,
and so the fix for 1192d98721 looked at that,
thought it was an unannexed file (it's not in the oldref), and preserved
it.
This is a hacky fix. It would be better for resolveMerge' to not update the
work tree, at least in direct mode, and only stage the changes, which
mergeDirectCleanUp could then move into tree. I want to make that change,
but this is not the time to do it.
Using the extract(1) program to do the heavy lifting.
Decided to make git-annex run pre-commit-annex when committing. Since
git-annex pre-commit also runs it, it'll be run when git commit is run too,
via the pre-commit hook. This basically gives back the pre-commit hook
that git-annex took away. The implementation avoids repeatedly looking
for the hook script when the assistant is running and committing
repeatedly; only checks if the hook is available once.
To make the script simpler, made git-annex metadata -s field?=value
only set a field when it's not already got a value.
This commit was sponsored by bak.
Note that negated globs are not supported. Would have complicated the code
to add them, without changing the data type serialization in a
non-backwards-compatable way.
This commit was sponsored by Denver Gingerich.
This allows eg, putting .git/annex/tmp on a ram disk, if the disk IO
of temp object files is too annoying (and if you don't want to keep
partially transferred objects across reboots).
.git/annex/misctmp must be on the same filesystem as the git work tree,
since files are moved to there in a way that will not work cross-device,
as well as symlinked into there.
I first wanted to put the tmp objects in .git/annex/objects/tmp, but
that would pose transition problems on upgrade when partially transferred
objects existed.
git annex info does not currently show the size of .git/annex/misctemp,
since it should stay small. It would also be ok to make something clean it
out, periodically.
Performance impact: When adding a large tree of new files, this needs
to do some git cat-file queries to check if any of the files already
existed and might need a metadata copy. I tried a benchmark in a copy
of my sound repository (so there was already a significant git tree
to check against.
Adding 10000 small files, with a cold cache:
before: 1m48.539s
after: 1m52.791s
So, impact is 0.0004 seconds per file added. Which seems acceptable, so did
not add some kind of configuration to enable/disable this.
This commit was sponsored by Lisa Feilen.
When constructing views, metadata is available about the location of the
file in the view's reference branch. Allows incorporating parts of the
directory hierarchy in a view.
For example `git annex view tag=* podcasts/=*` makes a view in the form
tag/showname.
Performance impact: I benchmarked git annex view tag=* in the conference
proceedings repo to take 6.459s before this change, and 6.544s after.
FWIW, I considered making the syntax for this be podcasts/*, which might
be easier for the user to learn. However, I think it's not as good:
* The user has to then juggle two different syntaxes, and podcasts/* will
be expanded by the shell so they also need to quote it, while podcasts/=*
is unlikely to be expanded by the shell.
* It would allow for things like podcasts/*/* and *.mp3 which do not
map well into views.
This commit was sponsored by Aurélien Pinceaux.
While writing this documentation, I realized that there needed to be a way
to stay in a view like tag=* while adding a filter like tag=work that
applies to the same field.
So, there are really two ways a view can be refined. It can have a new
"field=explicitvalue" filter added to it, which does not change the
"shape" of the view, but narrows the files it shows.
Or, it can have a new view added, which adds another level of
subdirectories.
So, added a vfilter command, which takes explicit values to add to the
filter, and rejects changes that would change the shape of the view.
And, made vadd only accept changes that change the shape of the view.
And, changed the View data type slightly; now components that can match
multiple metadata values can be visible, or not visible.
This commit was sponsored by Stelian Iancu.
So the user can now switch to a view and then move files around within it
to manage metadata. For example, moving a file into a new directory
when in the tags=* view adds a tag to it.
Implementation is fairly efficient. One diff-index, which is no more
expensive than the first stage of a git commit, followed by possibly
some cat-file --batch traffic to find the key (when deleting a file).
Very similar to what's done in direct mode when committing. And like
direct mode when updating the WC after a merge, it has to buffer the
diff-tree values in order to make 2 passes over them.
When not in a view, pre-commit now does one extra git symbolic-ref,
which is tiny overhead.
This commit was sponsored by Andrew Eskridge.
I was careful to write the code so its clear how laziness memoizes it,
although it's likely that much less explicit currying would have had
the same effect. Verified that the memoization works using a Debug.Trace.
Removed instance, got it all to build using fromRef. (With a few things
that really need to show something using a ref for debugging stubbed out.)
Then added back Read instance, and made Logs.View use it for serialization.
This changes the view log format.
(And a vpop command, which is still a bit buggy.)
Still need to do vadd and vrm, though this also adds their documentation.
Currently not very happy with the view log data serialization. I had to
lose the TDFA regexps temporarily, so I can have Read/Show instances of
View. I expect the view log format will change in some incompatable way
later, probably adding last known refs for the parent branch to View
or something like that.
Anyway, it basically works, although it's a bit slow looking up the
metadata. The actual git branch construction is about as fast as it can be
using the current git plumbing.
This commit was sponsored by Peter Hogg.
