Done by adding a oneshot mode, in which location log changes are written to
the journal, but not committed. Taking advantage of git-annex's existing
ability to recover in this situation.
This is used by git-annex-shell and other places where changes are made to
a remote's location log.
In git, a Ref can be a Sha, or a Branch, or a Tag. I added type aliases for
those. Note that this does not prevent mixing up of eg, refs and branches
at the type level. Since git really doesn't care, except rare cases like
git update-ref, or git tag -d, that seems ok for now.
There's also a tree-ish, but let's just use Ref for it. A given Sha or Ref
may or may not be a tree-ish, depending on the object type, so there seems
no point in trying to represent it at the type level.
Many functions took the repo as their first parameter. Changing it
consistently to be the last parameter allows doing some useful things with
currying, that reduce boilerplate.
In particular, g <- gitRepo is almost never needed now, instead
use inRepo to run an IO action in the repo, and fromRepo to get
a value from the repo.
This also provides more opportunities to use monadic and applicative
combinators.
All changes to files in the branch are now made via pure functions that
transform the old file into the new. This will allow adding locking
to prevent read/write races. It also makes the code nicer, and purer.
I noticed a behavior change, really a sort of bug fix. Before,
'git annex untrust foo --trust bar' would change both trust levels
permanantly, now the --trust doesn't get stored.
Adds a missing newline when a longnote is followed by a endresult.
Multiple longnotes in a row will now be separated by a blank line, which
could be a bug or a feature depending on taste.
Removed several places where newlines were explicitly displayed after
longnotes.
