ghc 8.8.4 seems to have changed something that broke code that has been
successfully using forkProcess since 2012. Likely a change to GC internals.
Since forkProcess has never had clear documentation about how to
use it safely, avoid using it at all. Instead, when git-annex needs to
daemonize itself, re-run the git-annex command, in a new process group
and session.
This commit was sponsored by Luke Shumaker on Patreon.
fromkey: Create an unlocked file when used in an adjusted branch where the
file should be unlocked, or when configured by annex.addunlocked.
There is some overlap with code in Annex.Ingest, however it's not quite the
same because ingesting has a temp file with the content, where here the
content, if any, is in the annex object file. So it eg, makes sense for
Annex.Ingest to copy the execute mode of the content file, but it does not make
sense for fromkey to do that.
Also changed in passing to stage the file in git directly, rather than
using git add. One consequence of that is that if the file is gitignored,
it will still get added, rather than the old behavior:
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
ignored
hint: Use -f if you really want to add them.
hint: Turn this message off by running
hint: "git config advice.addIgnoredFile false"
git-annex: user error (xargs ["-0","git","--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","add","--"] exited 123)
That old behavior was a surprise to me, and so I consider it a bug, and doubt
anyone would have relied on it.
Note that, when on an --hide-missing branch, it is possible to fromkey a key
that is not present (needs --force). The annex link or pointer file still gets
written in this case. It doesn't seem to make any sense not to write it,
because then fromkey would not do anything useful in this case, and this way
the file can be committed and synced to master, and the branch re-adjusted to
hide the new missing file.
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