Which access a remote using rsync over ssh, and which git pushes to much
more efficiently than ssh urls.
There was some old partial support for rsync URIs from 2013, but it seemed
incomplete, and did not use rsync over ssh. Weird.
I'm not sure if there's any remaining benefit to using the non-rsync url
forms with gcrypt, now that this is implemented? Updated docs to encourage
using the rsync urls.
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Git.Remote.parseRemoteLocation had a hack to handle URIs that contained
characters like spaces, which is something git unfortunately allows
despite not being a valid URI. However, that hack looked for "//" to
guess something was an URI, and these gcrypt URIs, being to a local
path, don't contain that. So instead escape all illegal characters and
check if the resulting thing is an URI.
And that was already done by Git.Construct.fromUrl, so
internally the gcrypt URI with a space looks like "gcrypt::foo%20bar"
and that needs to be de-escaped when converting back from URI to local
repo path.
This change might also allow a few other almost-valid URIs to be handled
as URIs by git-annex. None that contain "//" will change, and any
behavior change should result in git-annex doing closer to a right thing
than it did before, probably.
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Previously such nonsensical combinations always treated the matching option
as if it didn't match.
For now, made find --branch refuse matching options that need a
filename, because one is not provided to them in a way they'll use.
There's an open bug report to support it, but making it error out is
better than the old behavior of not finding what it was asked to.
Also, made --mimetype combined with eg --all work, by looking at the
object file when operating on keys.
unannex, uninit: When an annexed file is modified, don't overwrite the
modified version with an older version from the annex
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When a git remote is configured with an absolute path, use that path,
rather than making it relative. If it's configured with a relative path,
use that.
Git.Construct.fromPath changed to preserve the path as-is,
rather than making it absolute. And Annex.new changed to not
convert the path to relative. Instead, Git.CurrentRepo.get
generates a relative path.
A few things that used fromAbsPath unncessarily were changed in passing to
use fromPath instead. I'm seeing fromAbsPath as a security check,
while before it was being used in some cases when the path was
known absolute already. It may be that fromAbsPath is not really needed,
but only git-annex-shell uses it now, and I'm not 100% sure that there's
not some input that would cause a relative path to be used, opening a
security hole, without the security check. So left it as-is.
Test suite passes and strace shows the configured remote url is used
unchanged in the path into it. I can't be 100% sure there's not some code
somewhere that takes an absolute path to the repo and converts it to
relative and uses it, but it seems pretty unlikely that the code paths used
for a git remote would call such code. One place I know of is gitAnnexLink,
but I'm pretty sure that git remotes never deal with annex symlinks. If
that did get called, it generates a path relative to cwd, which would have
been wrong before this change as well, when operating on a remote.
