Thought was that this would be faster than a map, since a vector can be
updated more efficiently. It turns out to not seem to matter; runtime and
memory usage are basically identical.
The control socket path passed to ssh needs to be 17 characters shorter
than the maximum unix domain socket length, because ssh appends stuff to it
to make a temporary filename. Closes: #725512
Also, take the shorter of the relative and the absolute paths to the
socket. Typically the relative path will be a lot shorter (unless
deep inside a subdirectory of the repository), and so using it will
avoid flirting with the maximum safe socket lenghts in more situations,
and so lead to less breakage if all my attempts at fixing this are
still buggy.
Extends the index.lock handling to other git lock files. I surveyed
all lock files used by git, and found more than I expected. All are
handled the same in git; it leaves them open while doing the operation,
possibly writing the new file content to the lock file, and then closes
them when done.
The gc.pid file is excluded because it won't affect the normal operation
of the assistant, and waiting for a gc to finish on startup wouldn't be
good.
All threads except the webapp thread wait on the new startup sanity checker
thread to complete, so they won't try to do things with git that fail
due to stale lock files. The webapp thread mostly avoids doing that kind of
thing itself. A few configurators might fail on lock files, but only if the
user is explicitly trying to run them. The webapp needs to start
immediately when the user has opened it, even if there are stale lock
files.
Arranging for the threads to wait on the startup sanity checker was a bit
of a bear. Have to get all the NotificationHandles set up before the
startup sanity checker runs, or they won't see its signal. Perhaps
the NotificationBroadcaster is not the best interface to have used for
this. Oh well, it works.
This commit was sponsored by Michael Jakl
FAT has a lot of characters it does not allow in filenames, like ? and *
It's probably the worst offender, but other filesystems also have
limitiations.
In 2011, I made keyFile escape : to handle FAT, but missed the other
characters. It also turns out that when I did that, I was also living
dangerously; any existing keys that contained a : had their object
location change. Oops.
So, adding new characters to escape to keyFile is out. Well, it would be
possible to make keyFile behave differently on a per-filesystem basis, but
this would be a real nightmare to get right. Consider that a rsync special
remote uses keyFile to determine the filenames to use, and we don't know
the underlying filesystem on the rsync server..
Instead, I have gone for a solution that is backwards compatable and
simple. Its only downside is that already generated URL and WORM keys
might not be able to be stored on FAT or some other filesystem that
dislikes a character used in the key. (In this case, the user can just
migrate the problem keys to a checksumming backend. If this became a big
problem, fsck could be made to detect these and suggest a migration.)
Going forward, new keys that are created will escape all characters that
are likely to cause problems. And if some filesystem comes along that's
even worse than FAT (seems unlikely, but here it is 2013, and people are
still using FAT!), additional characters can be added to the set that are
escaped without difficulty.
(Also, made WORM limit the part of the filename that is embedded in the key,
to deal with filesystem filename length limits. This could have already
been a problem, but is more likely now, since the escaping of the filename
can make it longer.)
This commit was sponsored by Ian Downes
SHA3 is still waiting for final standardization.
Although this is looking less likely given
https://www.cdt.org/blogs/joseph-lorenzo-hall/2409-nist-sha-3
In the meantime, cryptohash implements skein, and it's used by some of the
haskell ecosystem (for yesod sessions, IIRC), so this implementation is
likely to continue working. Also, I've talked with the cryprohash author
and he's a reasonable guy.
It makes sense to have an alternate high security hash, in case some
horrible attack is found against SHA2 tomorrow, or in case SHA3 comes out
and worst fears are realized.
I'd also like to support using skein for HMAC. But no hurry there and
a new version of cryptohash has much nicer HMAC code, so I will probably
wait until I can use that version.
gcrypt needs to be able to fast-forward the master branch. If a git
repository is set up with git init --shared --bare, it gets that set, and
pushing to it will then fail, even when it's up-to-date.
This happened because the transferrer process did not know about the new
remote. remoteFromUUID crashed, which crashed the transferrer. When it was
restarted, the new one knew about the new remote so all further files would
transfer, but the one file would temporarily not be, until transfers retried.
Fixed by making remoteFromUUID not crash, and try reloading the remote list
if it does not know about a remote.
Note that this means that remoteFromUUID does not only return Nothing anymore
when the UUID is the UUID of the local repository. So had to change some code
that dependend on that assumption.
Overridable with --user-agent option.
Not yet done for S3 or WebDAV due to limitations of libraries used --
nether allows a user-agent header to be specified.
This commit sponsored by Michael Zehrer.
This is motivated by a user report that the assistant was repeatedly
retrying transfers of files that had been deleted (in direct mode, so
removing the only copy).
Note that the glacier code retries failed transfers after a while to retry
downloads that have aged long enough to be available. This is ok; if we're
doing a full transfer scan we'll retry on every file that is still in the
git tree.
Also note that this makes the assistant less likely to get every file
referenced by old revs of the git tree. Not something the assistant tries
to ensure anyway, so I feel this is acceptable.
This is a massive win on OSX, which doesn't have a sha256sum normally.
Only use external hash commands when the file is > 1 mb,
since cryptohash is quite close to them in speed.
SHA is still used to calculate HMACs. I don't quite understand
cryptohash's API for those.
Used the following benchmark to arrive at the 1 mb number.
1 mb file:
benchmarking sha256/internal
mean: 13.86696 ms, lb 13.83010 ms, ub 13.93453 ms, ci 0.950
std dev: 249.3235 us, lb 162.0448 us, ub 458.1744 us, ci 0.950
found 5 outliers among 100 samples (5.0%)
4 (4.0%) high mild
1 (1.0%) high severe
variance introduced by outliers: 10.415%
variance is moderately inflated by outliers
benchmarking sha256/external
mean: 14.20670 ms, lb 14.17237 ms, ub 14.27004 ms, ci 0.950
std dev: 230.5448 us, lb 150.7310 us, ub 427.6068 us, ci 0.950
found 3 outliers among 100 samples (3.0%)
2 (2.0%) high mild
1 (1.0%) high severe
2 mb file:
benchmarking sha256/internal
mean: 26.44270 ms, lb 26.23701 ms, ub 26.63414 ms, ci 0.950
std dev: 1.012303 ms, lb 925.8921 us, ub 1.122267 ms, ci 0.950
variance introduced by outliers: 35.540%
variance is moderately inflated by outliers
benchmarking sha256/external
mean: 26.84521 ms, lb 26.77644 ms, ub 26.91433 ms, ci 0.950
std dev: 347.7867 us, lb 210.6283 us, ub 571.3351 us, ci 0.950
found 6 outliers among 100 samples (6.0%)
import Crypto.Hash
import Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
import Criterion.Main
import Common
testfile :: FilePath
testfile = "/run/shm/data" -- on ram disk
main = defaultMain
[ bgroup "sha256"
[ bench "internal" $ whnfIO internal
, bench "external" $ whnfIO external
]
]
sha256 :: L.ByteString -> Digest SHA256
sha256 = hashlazy
internal :: IO String
internal = show . sha256 <$> L.readFile testfile
external :: IO String
external = do
s <- readProcess "sha256sum" [testfile]
return $ fst $ separate (== ' ') s
Done using a mode witness, which ensures it's fixed everywhere.
Fixing catFileKey was a bear, because git cat-file does not provide a
nice way to query for the mode of a file and there is no other efficient
way to do it. Oh, for libgit2..
Note that I am looking at tree objects from HEAD, rather than the index.
Because I cat-file cannot show a tree object for the index.
So this fix is technically incomplete. The only cases where it matters
are:
1. A new large file has been directly staged in git, but not committed.
2. A file that was committed to HEAD as a symlink has been staged
directly in the index.
This could be fixed a lot better using libgit2.
Now can tell if a repo uses gcrypt or not, and whether it's decryptable
with the current gpg keys.
This closes the hole that undecryptable gcrypt repos could have before been
combined into the repo in encrypted mode.
To support this, a core.gcrypt-id is stored by git-annex inside the git
config of a local gcrypt repository, when setting it up.
That is compared with the remote's cached gcrypt-id. When different, a
drive has been changed. git-annex then looks up the remote config for
the uuid mapped from the core.gcrypt-id, and tweaks the configuration
appropriately. When there is no known config for the uuid, it will refuse to
use the remote.
Note that it would be possible to extend the display to show all
repositories. But there can be a lot of repositories that are not set up as
remotes, and it would significantly clutter the display to show them all.
Since we're not showing all repositories, it's not worth trying to show
numcopies count either.
I decided to embrace these limitations and call the command remotes.
Use rsync for gcrypt remotes that are not local to the disk.
(Note that I have punted on supporting http transport for now, it doesn't
seem likely to be very useful.)
This was mostly quite easy, it just uses the rsync special remote to handle
the transfers. The git repository url is converted to a RsyncOptions
structure, which required parsing it separately, since the rsync special
remote only supports rsync urls, which use a different format.
Note that annexed objects are now stored at the top of the gcrypt repo,
rather than inside annex/objects. This simplified the rsync suport,
since it doesn't have to arrange to create that directory. And git-annex
is not going to be run directly within gcrypt repos -- or if in some
strance scenario it was, it would make sense for it to not see the
encrypted objects.
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With the initremote parameters "encryption=pubkey keyid=788A3F4C".
/!\ Adding or removing a key has NO effect on files that have already
been copied to the remote. Hence using keyid+= and keyid-= with such
remotes should be used with care, and make little sense unless the point
is to replace a (sub-)key by another. /!\
Also, a test case has been added to ensure that the cipher and file
contents are encrypted as specified by the chosen encryption scheme.
Wrote nice pure transition calculator, and ugly code to stage its results
into the git-annex branch. Also had to split up several Log modules
that Annex.Branch needed to use, but that themselves used Annex.Branch.
The transition calculator is limited to looking at and changing one file at
a time. While this made the implementation relatively easy, it precludes
transitions that do stuff like deleting old url log files for keys that are
being removed because they are no longer present anywhere.
When quvi is installed, git-annex addurl automatically uses it to detect
when an page is a video, and downloads the video file.
web special remote: Also support using quvi, for getting files,
or checking if files exist in the web.
This commit was sponsored by Mark Hepburn. Thanks!
<RichiH> i richih@eudyptes (git)-[master] ~git/debconf-share/debconf13/photos/chrysn % rm /home/richih/work/git/debconf-share/.git/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s3044235--693b74fcb12db06b5e79a8b99d03e2418923866506ee62d24a4e9ae8c5236758.JPG
<RichiH> richih@eudyptes (git)-[master] ~git/debconf-share/debconf13/photos/chrysn % git annex get P8060008.JPG
<RichiH> get P8060008.JPG (from website...) --2013-08-21 21:42:45-- http://annex.debconf.org/debconf-share/.git//annex/objects/1a4/67d/SHA256E-s3044235--693b74fcb12db06b5e79a8b99d03e2418923866506ee62d24a4e9ae8c5236758.JPG/SHA256E-s3044235--693b74fcb12db06b5e79a8b99d03e2418923866506ee62d24a4e9ae8c5236758.JPG
<RichiH> Resolving annex.debconf.org (annex.debconf.org)... 5.153.231.227, 2001:41c8:1000:19::227:2
<RichiH> Connecting to annex.debconf.org (annex.debconf.org)|5.153.231.227|:80... connected.
<RichiH> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
<RichiH> 2013-08-21 21:42:45 ERROR 404: Not Found.
<RichiH> File `/home/richih/work/git/debconf-share/.git/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s3044235--693b74fcb12db06b5e79a8b99d03e2418923866506ee62d24a4e9ae8c5236758.JPG' already there; not retrieving.
<RichiH> Unable to access these remotes: website
<RichiH> Try making some of these repositories available:
<RichiH> 3e0356ac-0743-11e3-83a5-1be63124a102 -- website (annex.debconf.org)
<RichiH> a7495021-9f2d-474e-80c7-34d29d09fec6 -- chrysn@hephaistos:~/data/projects/debconf13/debconf-share
<RichiH> eb8990f7-84cd-4e6b-b486-a5e71efbd073 -- joeyh passport usb drive
<RichiH> f415f118-f428-4c68-be66-c91501da3a93 -- joeyh laptop
<RichiH> failed
<RichiH> git-annex: get: 1 failed
<RichiH> richih@eudyptes (git)-[master] ~git/debconf-share/debconf13/photos/chrysn %
I was not able to reproduce the failure, but I did reproduce that
wget -O http://404/ results in an empty file being written.
This is a simple approach for setting up a mirroring repository.
It will work with any type of remotes.
Mirror --from is more expensive than mirror --to in general.
OTOH, mirror --from will get the file from any remote that has it, not only
the named mirror remote. And if the named mirror remote is not the fastest
available remote with a file, that can speed things up.
It would be possible to make the assistant or watch command do a more
dynamic mirroring, that didn't need to scan every time.
Requires git 1.8.4 or newer. When it's installed, a background
git check-ignore process is run, and used to efficiently check ignores
whenever a new file is added.
Thanks to Adam Spiers, for getting the necessary support into git for this.
A complication is what to do about files that are gitignored but have
been checked into git anyway. git commands assume the ignore has been
overridden in this case, and not need any more overriding to commit a
changed version.
However, for the assistant to do the same, it would have to run git ls-files
to check if the ignored file is in git. This is somewhat expensive. Or it
could use the running git-cat-file process to query the file that way,
but that requires transferring the whole file content over a pipe, so it
can be quite expensive too, for files that are not git-annex
symlinks.
Now imagine if the user knows that a file or directory tree will be getting
frequent changes, and doesn't want the assistant to sync it, so gitignores
it. The assistant could overload the system with repeated ls-files checks!
So, I've decided that the assistant will not automatically commit changes
to files that are gitignored. This is a tradeoff. Hopefully it won't be a
problem to adjust .gitignore settings to not ignore files you want the
assistant to autocommit, or to manually git annex add files that are listed
in .gitignore.
(This could be revisited if git-annex gets access to an interface to check
the content of the index w/o forking a git command. This could be libgit2,
or perhaps a separate git cat-file --batch-check process, so it wouldn't
need to ship over the whole file content.)
This commit was sponsored by Francois Marier. Thanks!
This runs git-cat-file in non-batch mode for all files with spaces.
If a directory tree has a lot of them, and is in direct mode, even "git
annex add" when there are few new files will need a *lot* of forks!
The only reason buffering the whole file content to get the sha is not a
memory leak is that git-annex only ever uses this on symlinks.
This needs to be reverted as soon as a fix is available in git!
A git pathspec is a filename, except when it starts with ':', it's taken
to refer to a branch, etc. Rather than special case ':', any filename
starting with anything unusual is prefixed with "./"
This could have been a real mess to deal with, but luckily SafeCommand
is already extensively used and so we know at the type level the difference
between parameters that are files, and parameters that are command options.
Testing did show that Git.Queue was not using SafeCommand on
filenames fed to xargs. (Filenames starting with '-' worked before only
because -- was used to separate filenames from options when calling eg git
add.)
The test suite now passes with filenames starting with ':'. However, I did
not keep that change to it, because such filenames are probably not legal
on windows, and I have enough ugly windows ifdefs in there as it is.
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This includes recovery from the ssh-agent problem that led to many reporting
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/Internal_Server_Error:_Unknown_UUID/
(Including fixing up .ssh/config to set IdentitiesOnly.)
Remotes that have no known uuid are now displayed in the webapp as
"unfinished". There's a link to check their status, and if the remote
has been set annex-ignore, a retry button can be used to unset that and
try again to set up the remote.
As this bug has shown, the process of adding a ssh remote has some failure
modes that are not really ideal. It would certianly be better if, when
setting up a ssh remote it would detect if it's failed to get the UUID,
and handle that in the remote setup process, rather than waiting until
later and handling it this way.
However, that's hard to do, particularly for local pairing, since the
PairListener runs as a background thread. The best it could do is pop up an
alert if there's a problem. This solution is not much different.
Also, this solution handles cases where the user has gotten their repo into
a mess manually and let's the assistant help with cleaning it up.
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When setting up a dedicated ssh key to access the annex on a host,
set IdentitiesOnly to prevent the ssh-agent from forcing use of a different
ssh key.
That behavior could result in unncessary password prompts. I remember
getting a message or two from people who got deluged with password
prompts and I couldn't at the time see why.
Also, it would prevent git-annex-shell from being run on the remote host,
when git-annex was installed there by unpacking the standalone tarball,
since the authorized_keys line for the dedicated ssh key, which sets
up calling git-annex-shell when it's not in path, wouldn't be used.
This fixes
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/Internal_Server_Error:_Unknown_UUID
but I've not closed that bug yet since I should still:
1. Investigate why the ssh remote got set up despite being so broken.
2. Make the webapp not handle the NoUUID state in such an ugly way.
3. Possibly add code to fix up systems that encountered the problem.
Although since it requires changes to .ssh/config this may be one for
the release notes.
Thanks to TJ for pointing me in the right direction to understand what
was happening here.
Started with a problem when running addurl on a really long url,
because the whole url is munged into the filename. Ended up doing
a fairly extensive review for places where filenames could get too large,
although it's hard to say I'm not missed any..
Backend.Url had a 128 character limit, which is fine when the limit is 255,
but not if it's a lot shorter on some systems. So check the pathconf()
limit. Note that this could result in fromUrl creating different keys
for the same url, if run on systems with different limits. I don't see
this is likely to cause any problems. That can already happen when using
addurl --fast, or if the content of an url changes.
Both Command.AddUrl and Backend.Url assumed that urls don't contain a
lot of multi-byte unicode, and would fail to truncate an url that did
properly.
A few places use a filename as the template to make a temp file.
While that's nice in that the temp file name can be easily related back to
the original filename, it could lead to `git annex add` failing to add a
filename that was at or close to the maximum length.
Note that in Command.Add.lockdown, the template is still derived from the
filename, just with enough space left to turn it into a temp file.
This is an important optimisation, because the assistant may lock down
a bunch of files all at once, and using the same template for all of them
would cause openTempFile to iterate through the same set of names,
looking for an unused temp file. I'm not very happy with the relatedTemplate
hack, but it avoids that slowdown.
Backend.WORM does not limit the filename stored in the key.
I have not tried to change that; so git annex add will fail on really long
filenames when using the WORM backend. It seems better to preserve the
invariant that a WORM key always contains the complete filename, since
the filename is the only unique material in the key, other than mtime and
size. Since nobody has complained about add failing (I think I saw it
once?) on WORM, probably it's ok, or nobody but me uses it.
There may be compatability problems if using git annex addurl --fast
or the WORM backend on a system with the 255 limit and then trying to use
that repo in a system with a smaller limit. I have not tried to deal with
those.
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This bug was introduced in 82a6db8fe8,
which improved handling of adding very large numbers of files by ensuring
that a minimum number of max size commits (5000 files each) were done.
I accidentially made it wait for another change to appear after such a max
size commit, even if a lot of queued changes were already accumulated.
That resulted in a stall when it got to the end. Now fixed to not wait
any longer than necessary to ensure the watcher has had time to wake back
up after the max size commit.
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This is a laziness problem. Despite the bang pattern on newfiles, the list
was not being fully evaluated before cleanup was called. Moving cleanup out
to after the list is actually used fixes this.
More evidence that I should be using ResourceT or pipes, if any was needed.
This affected both the hourly NetWatcherFallback thread and the syncing
when network connection is detected.
It was a reversion of sorts, introduced in
8861e270be, when annex-ignore was changed to
not control git syncing. I forgot to make it check annex-sync at that
point.
This was the last place in git-annex that could remove data referred to by
the git history, without being forced.
Like drop, dropunused checks remotes, and honors the global annex.numcopies
setting. (However, .gitattributes settings cannot apply to unused files.)
I only added this to the presense messages that are really intended for
presence. The ones used for tunneling git etc don't have the tag, because
that would waste bandwidth.
In direct mode, it's best to whenever possible not move direct mode files
out of the way, and so I made unannex avoid touching the direct mode file at
all.
That actually turns out to be easy, because in direct mode, unlike indirect
mode, the pre-commit hook won't get confused if the unannexed file later
gets added back by git add. So there's no need to commit the unannex right
away; it can be staged for the user to commit later. This also means that
unannex in direct mode is a lot faster than in indirect mode!
Another subtle bit is the bookkeeping that is done when unannexing a direct
mode file. The inode cache needs to be removed so that when uninit runs
getKeysPresent, it doesn't see the cache and think the key is still
present and crash when it's not.
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This is ok to do now that the socket filename never needs to be mapped back
to a hostname.
Short hostnames will still appear in the clear, which is less obfuscated.
So this cannot possibly make ssh connection caching fail for a hostname it
used to work for.
gmail.com has some XMPP SRV records, but does not itself respond to XMPP
traffic, although it does accept connections on port 5222. So if a user
entered the wrong password, it would try all the SRVs and fall back to
trying gmail, and hang at that point.
This seems the right thing to do, not just a workaround.
I wanted to try to guard against it in Command.Add too, but it's a case of
garbage in, garbage out. Once Command.Add has been told it's dealing with a
dummy symlink, it goes and deletes it, and even though the object it
thinks it points to is not present in the annex, it's Command.Add is still
doing the right thing to go ahead and add the broken symlink. So the two
fixes I was able to put in will have to do.
I thought at first this was a Windows specific problem, but it's not;
this affects checking any non-bare repository exported via http. Which is
a potentially important use case!
The actual bug was the case where Right False was returned by the first url
short-curcuited later checks. But the whole method used felt like code
I'd no longer write, and the use of undefined was particularly disgusting.
So I rewrote it.
Also added an action display.
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Cabal does not seem to have a way to check if flag A is set and then, if
flag B is set, add a dep. Instead, it makes flag B get unset if the
dep is not available.
Note that've told me:
We'll see how it goes, but I think this could be a permanent offer for
your userbase. People using git-annex are clueful and won't be a big
support burden for us, so it's a win-win.
The icon files will be installed when running make install or cabal
install. Did not try to run update-icon-caches, since I think it's debian
specific, and dh_icons will take care of that for the Debian package.
Using the favicon as a 16x16 icon. At 24x24 the svg displays pretty well,
although the dotted lines are rather faint. The svg is ok at all higher
resolutions.
The standalone linux build auto-installs the desktop and autostart files
when run. I have not made it auto-install the icon file too, because
a) that would take more work to include them in the tarball and find them
b) it would need to be an install to ~/.icons/, and I don't know if that
really works!
annexLocations uses OS-native directory separators, but for an url,
it needs to use / even on Windows.
This is an ugly workaround. Could parameterize a lot of stuff in
annexLocations to fix it better. I suspect this is probably the only place
it's needed though.
migrate wants to know the associated filename, in order to look up
the new backend. Can't do that with --all
migrate --all --backend=newvalue could be useful to support, in the future.
I spent a long time worrying about this problem with --all, that it cannot
check .gitattributes files for numcopies settings, and so would not be
entirely safe to use. The solution turns out to be simple, just don't
implement `git annex drop --all`. drop is the only command that needs to
check numcopies (move can also reduce the number of copies, but explicitly
bypasses numcopies settings).
Use cases that might need a drop --all are probably better served by using
unused and dropunused, which already work in a bare repository.
The ssh setup first runs ssh to the real hostname, to probe if a ssh key is
needed. If one is, it generates a mangled hostname that uses a key. This
mangled hostname was being used to ssh into the server to set up the key.
But if the server already had the key set up, and it was locked down, the
setup would fail. This changes it to use the real hostname when sshing in
to set up the key, which avoids the problem.
Note that it will redundantly set up the key on the ssh server. But it's
the same key; the ssh key generation code uses the key if it already
exists.
A common failure mode for direct mode has been for files to end up still
stored in indirect mode. While I hope that doesn't happen anymore, fsck
should deal with it.
This is a compromise. I would like to nice every thread except for the
webapp thread, but it's not practical to do so. That would need every
thread to run as a bound thread, which could add significant overhead.
And any forkIO would escape the nice level.
Better to have a working test suite that doesn't test a few things
than no working test suite.
Most of the disabled stuff is because for some reason "git annex sync"
doesn't work when run inside the test suite. Looks like PATH problems.
The directory and rsync special remotes seem broken on Windows, or
maybe the tests are. Pretty sure the hook special remote test is broken.
Yeah, that didn't actually work. Got error messages like it couldn't read
from the control socket, so probably ssh doesn't really support that on
Windows, at least the cygwin ssh build I'm using.
This write permission frobbing is very appropriate in indirect mode,
since annexed objects are stored as immutably as can be managed. But not
in direct mode, where files should be able to be modified at any time.
There are already sufficient guards that there's no need to prevent a file
being written to while it's being ingested, in direct mode. The inode cache
will detect (most) types of modifications, and the add will fail. Then a
re-add should be done. The assistant should get another inotify change
event, and automatically add the new version of the file.
Fuzz tests have shown that git cat-file --batch sometimes stops running.
It's not yet known why (no error message; repo seems ok). But this is
something we can deal with in the CoProcess framework, since all 3 types of
long-running git processes should be restartable if they fail.
Note that, as implemented, only IO errors are caught. So an error thrown
by the reveiver, when it sees something that is not valid output from
git cat-file (etc) will not cause a restart. I don't want it to retry
if git commands change their output or are just outputting garbage.
This does mean that if the command did a partial output and crashed in the
middle, it would still not be restarted.
There is currently no guard against restarting a command repeatedly, if,
for example, it crashes repeatedly on startup.
The checkpresent hook can return either True or, False, or fail with a message
if it cannot successfully check the remote. Currently for glacier, when
--trust-glacier is not set, it always returns False. Crucially, in the case
when a file is in glacier, this is telling git-annex it's not there, so copy
re-uploads it. This is not desirable; it breaks using glacier-cli to retreive
that file later, and it wastes money/bandwidth.
What if it instead, when the glacier inventory is missing a
file, it returns False. And when the glacier inventory has a file, unless
--trust-glacier is set, it *fails*.
The result would be:
* `git annex copy --to glacier` would only send things not listed in inventory. If a file is listed in the inventory, `copy`
would complain that --trust-glacier` is not set, and not re-upload the file.
* `git annex drop` would only trust that glacier has a file when --trust-glacier is set. Behavior unchanged.
* `git annex move --to glacier`, when the file is not listed in inventory, would send the file, and delete it locally. Behavior unchanged.
* `git annex move --to glacier`, when the file is listed in inventory, would only trust that glacier has the file when --trust-glacier is set
* `git annex copy --from glacier` / `git annex get`, when the file is located in glacier, would trust the location log, and attempt to get the file from glacier.
Ie, when there'a a conflicted merge we may get foo.variant-xxxx
created in a merge. If a second merge conflict occurs on that new file,
it was not falling back to putting in the whole key (which should stop
the merge conflicts happening for good, but is ugly).
The current manual mode preferred content expression is:
"present and (((exclude=*/archive/* and exclude=archive/*) or (not (copies=archive:1 or copies=smallarchive:1))) or (not copies=semitrusted+:1))"
The old matcher misparsed this, to basically:
OR (present and (...)) (not copies=semitrusted+:1))
The paren handling and indeed the whole conversion from tokens to the
matcher was just wrong. The new way may not be the cleverest, but I think
it is correct, and you can see how it pattern matches structurally against
the expressions when parsing them.
That expression is now parsed to:
MAnd (MOp <function>)
(MOr (MOr (MAnd (MOp <function>) (MOp <function>)) (MNot (MOr (MOp <function>) (MOp <function>))))
(MNot (MOp <function>)))
Which appears correct, and behaves correct in testing.
Also threw in a simplifier, so the final generated Matcher has less
unnecessary clutter in it. Mostly so that I could more easily read &
confirm them.
Also, added a simple test of the Matcher to the test suite.
There is a small chance of badly formed preferred content expressions
behaving differently than before due to this rewrite.
I noticed that when my modem hung up and redialed, my xmpp client was left
sending messages into the void. This will also handle any idle
disconnection issues.
