Note that, due to not using rsync to transfer files to ssh remotes
any longer, permissions and other file metadata of annexed files
will no longer be preserved when copying them to ssh remotes.
Other remotes never supported preserving that information, so
this is not considered a regression. Added NEWS item about this.
Another significant side effect of this is that, even when rsync is run to
retrieve a file, its progress display will no longer be shown, and
instead the native git-annex progress display will appear. It would be
possible to use the rsync process display when rsync is used (old
git-annex-shell and also retrieval from a local repository), but it
would have complicated the code unncessarily, and been inconsistent
behavior.
(I'd been thinking for a while about eliminating the rsync progress
display, since it's got some annoying verbosities, including display of
the key and the "(xfr#1, to-chk=0/1)" bit and was already somewhat
inconsistent.)
retrieveKeyFileCheap still uses rsync, since that ensures that it gets
the actual file content from the remote. Using the P2P protocol would
use the local content, as long as the local and remote size are the
same.
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Not yet used for everything else, but this is enough to
verify that it works, and do some benchmarking.
Some bugfixes included, which got it working. Also fallback to old
actions has been verified to work correctly.
Benchmarked dropping one thousand files from a ssh remote on localhost.
Using the old git-annex 40.867 seconds.
With the P2P protocol 9.905 seconds!
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Not yet used by git-annex, but this will allow faster transfers etc than
using individual ssh connections and rsync.
Not called git-annex-shell p2p, because git-annex p2p does something
else and I don't want two subcommands with the same name between the two
for sanity reasons.
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Do not treat parts of the filename that contain punctuation or other
non-alphanumeric characters as extensions. Before, such characters were
filtered out.
Note that in 45308ec78b "foo.ba__________r"
was munged to ".bar" and so incorrectly treated as an extension. That was
fixed by changing the filter order, but not allowing punctuation seems a
better fix.
This assumes that extensions containing punctuation are rare. "_" seems the
most likely character; I used it in ikiwiki "._comment" files. But I can't
recall seeing it anywhere else. It certianly seems that no commonly used
extensions contain punctuation. If git-annex doesn't treat "._comment"
as an extension, it's not likely to break software that expects to see that
extension like some software expects to see .epub or .mp3.
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Renaming is not supported; it might be possible to use --fuzzy to get rsync
to notice the file is being renamed, but that is a bit ..fuzzy.
On the other hand, interrupted transfers of an exported file are resumed,
since rsync is great at that. Had to adjust the exporttree docs, which
said interrupted transfers would restart.
Note that remove no longer makes the empty directory dummy, instead
sending the top-level empty directory. This works just as well and I
noticed the dummy was unncessary when refactoring it into removeGeneric.
Verified that behavior of remove is not changed, and git annex
testremote does pass.
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Makefile: Remove chrpath workaround for bug in cabal, which is no longer
needed.
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/2717 says it uses RUNPATH instead
of RPATH now, but I don't even see that for statically linked libraries;
the bug with that appears to be fixed.
cabal-install version 1.24.0.2
compiled using version 1.24.2.0 of the Cabal library
I left the rpath removal using otool on OSX because those straight up
broke the linker, and I don't know if the OSX autobuilder is updated to
a new enough cabal to not need it.
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sync: Fix bug that prevented pulling changes into direct mode repositories
that were committed to remotes using git commit rather than git-annex sync.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
tips/automatically_adding_metadata/pre-commit-annex: Fix to not silently
skip filenames containing non-ascii characters.
git diff-index defaults to munging non-ascii characters. Using -z makes
it not do that, and then we just change the nulls to newlines.
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Added annex.merge-annex-branches config setting which can be used to
disable automatic merge of git-annex branches.
I wonder if git-annex merge/sync/assistant should disable this
setting? Not sure yet, so have not done so. May be that users will not set
it in git config, but pass it via -c to commands that need it.
Checking the config setting adds a very small overhead, but it's
only checked once per command so should be insignificant.
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Repositories that are upgraded from before that version to this
one will not break, but will just not see the benefit of the mergedrefs log
speeding things up, until one new ref gets merged in.
Added --json-error-messages option, which includes error messages in the
json output, rather than outputting them to stderr.
The actual rediretion of errors is not implemented yet, this is only
the docs and option plumbing.
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Allows using new special remote messages when git-annex supports them,
and avoiding using them when git-annex is too old. The new INFO is one
such message.
There's also the possibility, currently unused, for the special remote's
reply to include some kind of extensions of its own.
Merging this is blocked by https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/2124
since it seems it will break datalad. I checked all the other special
remotes and they will be ok.
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It's left up to the special remote to detect when git-annex is new enough
to support the message; an old git-annex will blow up.
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When a repo is in multiple standard groups,
Logs.PreferredContent.makeMatcher uses unknownMatcher,
so will not get everything, but instead defaults to wanting whatever is
present.
