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 is a mostly backwards compatable change. I broke backwards
compatability in the case where a filename starts with double-quote.
That seems likely to be very rare, and v6 unlocked files are a new feature
anyway, and fsck needs to fix missing associated file mappings anyway. So,
I decided that is good enough.
The encoding used is to just show the String when it contains a problem
character. While that adds some overhead to addAssociatedFile and
removeAssociatedFile, those are not called very often. This approach has
minimal decode overhead, because most filenames won't be encoded that way,
and it only has to look for the leading double-quote to skip the expensive
read. So, getAssociatedFiles remains fast.
I did consider using ByteString instead, but getting a FilePath converted
with all chars intact, even surrigates, is difficult, and it looks like
instance PersistField ByteString uses Text, which I don't trust for problem
encoded data. It would probably be slower too, and it would make the
database less easy to inspect manually.
Renamed the db to keys, since it is various info about a Keys.
Dropping a key will update its pointer files, as long as their content can
be verified to be unmodified. This falls back to checksum verification, but
I want it to use an InodeCache of the key, for speed. But, I have not made
anything populate that cache yet.
Did not keep backwards compat for sticky bit records. An incremental fsck
that is already in progress will start over on upgrade to this version.
This is not yet ready for merging. The autobuilders need to have sqlite
installed.
Also, interrupting a fsck --incremental does not commit the database.
So, resuming with fsck --more restarts from beginning.
Memory: Constant during a fsck of tens of thousands of files.
(But, it does seem to buffer whole transation in memory, so
may really scale with number of files.)
CPU: ?