One way this can be used is to remove all urls for some website that went
away:
git-annex whereis --format '${file} ${url}\0' | \
grep -z whatever.com | git-annex rmurl --batch -z
Combining ${url} and ${uuid} is a bit of a combinatorial explosion.
It didn't seem worth only outputting a uuid alongside an url belonging
to it, so each uuid is output beside each url.
Finishes the transition to make remote methods throw exceptions, rather
than silently hide them.
A bit on the fence about this one, because when renameExport fails,
it falls back to deleting instead, and so does the user care why it failed?
However, it did let me clean up several places in the code.
This commit was sponsored by Ethan Aubin.
When storing content on remote fails, always display a reason why.
Since the Storer used by special remotes already did, this mostly affects
git remotes, but not entirely. For example, if git-lfs failed to connect to
the endpoint, it used to silently return False.
This relicates git's behavior. It adds a few stat calls for the command
line parameters, so there is some minor slowdown, but even with thousands
of parameters it will not be very noticable, and git does the same statting
in similar circumstances.
Note that this does not prevent eg "git annex add symlink"; the symlink
will be added to git as usual. And "git annex find symlink" will silently
list nothing as well. It's only "symlink/foo" or "subdir/symlink/foo" that
triggers the warning.
Finishing work begun in 6952060665
Also, truncate filenames provided by other remotes if they're too long,
when --preserve-filename is not used. That seems to have been omitted
before by accident.
