To support filenames starting with dashes.
To update the config of existing repositories, you can re-run git-annex init.
Perhaps it should check every time for the old config and update it, but
that has several problems:
- read-only repos
- unexpected commands like `git annex find` changing git configs
might be surprising behavior
Since filenames starting with dashes are not super common and the user can
re-init easily enough if their repo needs fixed, I went for the simplest
fix.
This does not change the overall license of the git-annex program, which
was already AGPL due to a number of sources files being AGPL already.
Legally speaking, I'm adding a new license under which these files are
now available; I already released their current contents under the GPL
license. Now they're dual licensed GPL and AGPL. However, I intend
for all my future changes to these files to only be released under the
AGPL license, and I won't be tracking the dual licensing status, so I'm
simply changing the license statement to say it's AGPL.
(In some cases, others wrote parts of the code of a file and released it
under the GPL; but in all cases I have contributed a significant portion
of the code in each file and it's that code that is getting the AGPL
license; the GPL license of other contributors allows combining with
AGPL code.)
Avoids annex.largefiles inconsitency and also avoids a lot of
unneccessary calls to the clean filter when a large repo's clone
is being initialized.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
