* For url downloads, git-annex now defaults to using a http library,
rather than wget or curl. But, if annex.web-options is set, it will
use curl. To use the .netrc file, run:
git config annex.web-options --netrc
* git-annex no longer uses wget (and wget is no longer shipped with
git-annex builds).
Note that curl is always run in silent mode, since the new API for
download has a MeterUpdate and doesn't make way for curl progress
output. It might be worth writing a parser for curl's progress output
to update the meter when using it, but I didn't bother with this edge
case for now.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
Remote.S3 and Remote.Helper.Http both had similar code to sink a
http-conduit Response to a file; refactor out sinkResponseFile.
downloadC downloads an url to a file using http-conduit, and supports
resuming. Falls back to curl to handle urls that http-conduit does not
support. This is not used yet, but the goal is to replace download with
it.
git-annex.cabal: conduit-extra was not actually used for a long time,
remove the dep. conduit moves into the main dependency list, but since
http-conduit was already in there, and it depends on conduit, that's not
really adding a new build dep.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
Compare these...
numcopies stats:
numcopies -1: 1986
numcopies +0: 1170
numcopies -2: 769
numcopies +1: 716
numcopies -4: 696
numcopies -3: 485
numcopies -6: 230
numcopies -5: 111
numcopies -7: 91
numcopies -9: 9
numcopies stats:
numcopies +1: 716
numcopies +0: 1170
numcopies -1: 1986
numcopies -2: 769
numcopies -3: 485
numcopies -4: 696
numcopies -5: 111
numcopies -6: 230
numcopies -7: 91
numcopies -9: 9
I feel that the former is a jumbled mess that doesn't tell much overall,
while the second shows pretty clearly that most files are within 1 degree
of the desired number of copies, with some outliers without enough.
Enable HTTP connection reuse across multiple files, when git-annex
uses http-conduit. Before, a new Manager was created each time
Utility.Url used it. Now, a single Manager gets created the first time,
so connections are reused.
Doesn't help when external programs are used for url download,
but does speed up addurl --fast, fsck --from web, etc.
Testing fsck --fast --from web with 3 files, over high-latency
satellite internet, it sped up from 19.37s to 14.96s.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
When adding a new version of a file, and annex.genmetadata is enabled,
don't copy the data metadata from the old version of the file, instead use
the mtime of the file. Rationalle being that the user has requested to
generate metadata and so would expect to get the new mtime into metadata.
Also, avoid warning about copying metadata when all the old metadata is
date metadata. Which was rather the harder part.
This commit was sponsored by Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on Patreon.
