For use with tor hidden services, and perhaps other transports later.
Based on Utility.SimpleProtocol, it's a line-based protocol,
interspersed with transfers of bytestrings of a specified size.
Implementation of the local and remote sides of the protocol is done
using a free monad. This lets monadic code be included here, without
tying it to any particular way to get bytes peer-to-peer.
This adds a dependency on the haskell package "free", although that
was probably pulled in transitively from other dependencies already.
This commit was sponsored by Jeff Goeke-Smith on Patreon.
ghc 8 added backtraces on uncaught errors. This is great, but git-annex was
using error in many places for a error message targeted at the user, in
some known problem case. A backtrace only confuses such a message, so omit it.
Notably, commands like git annex drop that failed due to eg, numcopies,
used to use error, so had a backtrace.
This commit was sponsored by Ethan Aubin.
This makes merging a remote into a freshly created direct mode repository
work the same as it works in indirect mode.
The git-annex branches would get merged in any case by a sync,
since that doesn't use git merge.
This might need to be revisited later to better mirror git's behavior.
git-annex.cabal: Loosen bounds on persistent to allow 2.5, which on Debian
has been patched to work with esqueleto. This may break cabal's resolver on
non-Debian systems; if so, either use stack to build, or run cabal with
--constraint='persistent ==2.2.4.1' Hopefully this mess with esqueleto will
be resolved soon.
https://github.com/prowdsponsor/esqueleto/issues/137
This avoids needing to bind to the right port before something else
does.
The socket is in /var/run/user/$uid/ which ought to be writable by only
that uid. At least it is on linux systems using systemd.
For Windows, may need to revisit this and use ports or something.
The first version of tor to support sockets for hidden services
was 0.2.6.3. That is not in Debian stable, but is available in
backports.
This commit was sponsored by andrea rota.
Tor unfortunately does not come out of the box configured to let hidden
services register themselves on the fly via the ControlPort.
And, changing the config to enable the ControlPort and a particular type
of auth for it may break something already using the ControlPort, or
lessen the security of the system.
So, this leaves only one option to us: Add a hidden service to the
torrc. git-annex enable-tor does so, and picks an unused high port for
tor to listen on for connections to the hidden service.
It's up to the caller to somehow pick a local port to listen on
that won't be used by something else. That may be difficult to do..
This commit was sponsored by Jochen Bartl on Patreon.
