git 2.8.1 (or perhaps 2.9.0) is going to prevent git merge from merging in
unrelated branches. Since the webapp's pairing etc features often combine
together repositories with unrelated histories, work around this behavior
change by setting GIT_MERGE_ALLOW_UNRELATED_HISTORIES when the assistant
merges.
Note though that this is not done for git annex sync's merges, so
it will follow git's default or configured behavior.
When git-annex is used with a git version older than 2.2.0, disable support for
adjusted branches, since GIT_COMMON_DIR is needed to update them and was first
added in that version of git.
This is how direct mode does it too, and somehow, for reasons that
currently escape me, this makes git merge not care if it's run with an
empty work tree.
This makes the direct mode to v6 upgrade able to be performed in one clone
of a repository without affecting other clones, which can continue using v5
and direct mode.
Only reverse adjust the changes in the commit, which means that adjustments
do not need to be generally cleanly reversable.
For example, an adjustment can unlock all locked files, but does not need
to worry about files that were originally unlocked when reversing, because
it will only ever be run on files that have been changed. So, it's ok
if it locks all files when reversed, or even leaves all files as-is when
reversed.
Using adjusted/unlocked/master made lots of git stuff dealing with "master"
complain that it was ambiguous. This new appoach is more like view branch
names, and shows the adjustment right there in the branch display even if
only the basename of the branch is shown.
There's a race here, but entering an adjusted branch for the first time is
not something to do when a commit is being made at the same time. Although,
may want to prevent the assistant from committing while entering the
adjusted branch.
So, it will pull and push the original branch, not the adjusted one.
And, for merging, it will use updateAdjustedBranch (not implemented yet).
Note that remaining uses of Git.Branch.current need to be checked too;
for things that should act on the original branch, and not the adjusted
branch.
"git annex adjust" may be a temporary interface, but works for a proof of
concept.
It is pretty fast at creating the adjusted branch. The main overhead is
injecting pointer files. It might be worth optimising that by reusing the
symlink target as the pointer file content. When I tried to do that,
the problem was that the clean filter doesn't use that same format, and so
git thought files had changed. Could be dealt with, perhaps make the clean
filter use symlink format for pointer files when on an adjusted branch?
But the real overhead is in checking out the branch, when git runs the
smudge filter once per file. That is perhaps too slow to be usable,
although it may only affect initial checkout of the branch, and not
updates. TBD.
