This brings back .git/annex/misctmp, but only for init. If an init
is interrupted while probing using that temp directory, the files it left
will get deleted 1 week later by a subsequent git-annex run.
That git fixed a memory leak that could cause an OOM during the upgrade.
Most git-annex builds have a new enough git already.
OSX git was upgraded with brew.
Linux i386ancient build's git was too old. Upgrading it to a fixed
git didn't work (due to the newer git not working with the old ssh,
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/git/issues/detail?id=7 )
Choices to deal with that were:
* Somehow make direct mode upgrade work with the old git, avoiding its
OOM problem. One way would be to switch the repo to indirect mode
first, and so upgrade to a repo with locked files. Not good when
the filesystem does not support symlinks.
* backport the OOM fix from git 2.22
(And do what about the version number so git-annex knows it's fixed?)
* backport openssh (and possibly more stuff)
* move the i386ancient build to at least Debian stretch (still backporting git)
But this will make it no longer work with some of the ancient kernels it
targets.
Of those, backporting the OOM fix seemed the best approach. Put "oomfix"
in the git version number to indicate it.
I have not automated building the git backport, so here's the patch I
used:
diff -ur orig/git-2.1.4/convert.c git-2.1.4/convert.c
--- orig/git-2.1.4/convert.c 2014-12-18 18:42:18.000000000 +0000
+++ git-2.1.4/convert.c 2019-08-29 20:05:04.371872338 +0100
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@
if (start_async(&async))
return 0; /* error was already reported */
- if (strbuf_read(&nbuf, async.out, len) < 0) {
+ if (strbuf_read(&nbuf, async.out, 0) < 0) {
error("read from external filter %s failed", cmd);
ret = 0;
}
diff -ur orig/git-2.1.4/GIT-VERSION-GEN git-2.1.4/GIT-VERSION-GEN
--- orig/git-2.1.4/GIT-VERSION-GEN 2014-12-18 18:42:18.000000000 +0000
+++ git-2.1.4/GIT-VERSION-GEN 2019-08-29 20:06:39.132743228 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.1.4
+DEF_VER=v2.1.4.oomfix
LF='
'
diff -ur orig/git-2.1.4/configure git-2.1.4/configure
--- orig/git-2.1.4/configure 2014-12-18 18:42:19.000000000 +0000
+++ git-2.1.4/configure 2019-08-29 20:27:45.896380015 +0100
@@ -580,8 +580,8 @@
# Identity of this package.
PACKAGE_NAME='git'
PACKAGE_TARNAME='git'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='2.1.4'
-PACKAGE_STRING='git 2.1.4'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='2.1.4.oomfix'
+PACKAGE_STRING='git 2.1.4.oomfix'
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='git@vger.kernel.org'
PACKAGE_URL=''
diff -ur orig/git-2.1.4/version git-2.1.4/version
--- orig/git-2.1.4/version 2014-12-18 18:42:19.000000000 +0000
+++ git-2.1.4/version 2019-08-29 20:06:17.572545210 +0100
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.1.4
+2.1.4.oomfix
If a direct mode file is deleted or modified, and there are no other
files containing the content, the content was lost. That's a normal
thing that can happen in direct mode, but not in v7, so the upgrade
code has to notice it in order for the location log to be accurate.
Systems such as Debian that have overridden the default fpath will need to
set ZSH_COMPLETIONS_PATH.
I feel that Debian is causing unncessary complexity by making this change,
and have filed a bug report about it.
This also means that when git-annex is installed with PREFIX=/usr/local
it will use /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions which works with probably
all versions of zsh.
Its repeated opening and writing to the sqlite database somehow caused
inode cache information to occasionally be lost.
This loses code coverage, since running git-annex as a child process
prevents tracking what parts of the code are exercised. I have not looked
at the code coverage in a long time. It would probably be possible to
collect code coverage for the child procesess and merge it together.
This way a failure to clean up the main repo dir from a previous pass
can't result in reusing that repo, which won't be configured right for the
current pass.
Improved probing when CoW copies can be made between files on the same
drive. Now supports CoW between BTRFS subvolumes. And, falls back to rsync
instead of using cp when CoW won't work, eg copies between repos on the
same EXT4 filesystem.
Rather than trying cp --reflink=always for each file copied to a remote,
it's tried once and if it fails it falls back to using rsync thereafter
for the lifetime of the Remote object. That avoids overhead of calling cp
which while small, will add up over a large number of files.
This commit was sponsored by Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on Patreon.
Support running v7 upgrade in a repo where there is no branch checked out,
but HEAD is set directly to some other ref.
This commit was sponsored by Jack Hill on Patreon.
Reversion from commit 436f10771, CustomOutput was forcing quiet output
which overrode the json setting.
find happened to be the only command that uses CustomOutput and also
outputs json. (metadata --get does also use CustomOutput and --json does not
enable json output for that, which may be an oversight, but was already the
behavior before this regression.)
Does --unused bypass required content checks in any meaningful sense?
I documented it as such but am unsure of what required content setting
would be considered to match unused content.
init: Fix a reversion in the last release that prevented automatically
generating and setting a description for the repository.
Seemed best to factor out uuidDescMapRaw that does not
have the default mempty descrition behavior.
I don't much like that behavior, but I know things depend on it.
One thing in particular is `git annex info` which lists the uuids and
descriptions; if the current repo has been initialized in some way that
means it does not have a description, it would not show up w/o that.
(Not only repos created due to this bug might lack that. For example a repo
that was marked dead and had --drop-dead delete its git-annex branch info,
and then came back from the dead would similarly not be in the uuid.log.
Also there have been other versions of git-annex that didn't set a default
description; for years there was no default description.)
