Previously, when the git config was unable to be read from a ssh remote,
it would try to git fetch from it to determine if the remote was
otherwise accessible. That was unnessary work, since exit status 255
indicates a connection problem.
As well as avoiding the extra work of the fetch, this also improves
things when a ssh remote cannot be connected to due to a problem with
the git-annex ssh control socket. In that situation, ssh will also exit 255.
Before, the git fetch was tried in that situation, and would succeed, since
it does not use the git-annex ssh control socket. git-annex would conclude
that git-annex-shell was not installed on the remote, which could be wrong.
I suppose it also used to be possible for the user to need to enter a
ssh password on each connection to the remote. If they entered the wrong
password for the git-annex-shell call, but then the right password for
the git fetch, it would also incorrectly set annex-ignore, and that
situation is also now fixed.
* Removed the i386ancient standalone tarball build for linux, which
was increasingly unable to support new git-annex features.
* Removed support for building with ghc older than 9.0.2,
and with older versions of haskell libraries than are in current Debian
stable.
* stack.yaml: Update to lts-23.2.
Note that i386ancient was targeting linux 2.6.32, which has been EOL for
over 9 years now. Any old system still using such a kernel is certainly highly
insecure. And I suspect i386ancient had its own insecurities due to haskell
libraries and C libraries not having been updated.
As done previously in 2023 in commit bcc69f07e8
Commands used:
for f in $(git grep -l '\[\[!tag projects/dandi\]\]'); do if grep -q 'done\]\]' "$f"; then git mv "$f" ../projects/dandi/bugs-done; g=$(echo "$f" | sed 's/.mdwn//'); if [ -d "$g" ]; then git mv "$g" ../projects/dandi/bugs-done; fi; fi; done
for f in $(git grep -l '\[\[!tag projects/repronim\]\]'); do if grep -q 'done\]\]' "$f"; then git mv "$f" ../projects/repronim/bugs-done; g=$(echo "$f" | sed 's/.mdwn//'); if [ -d "$g" ]; then git mv "$g" ../projects/repronim/bugs-done; fi; fi; done
for f in $(git grep -l '\[\[!tag projects/datalad\]\]'); do if grep -q 'done\]\]' "$f"; then git mv "$f" ../projects/datalad/bugs-done; g=$(echo "$f" | sed 's/.mdwn//'); if [ -d "$g" ]; then git mv "$g" ../projects/datalad/bugs-done; fi; fi; done
