Avoids doing auto-merging in commands that don't need fully current
information from the git-annex branch. In particular, git annex add no
longer needs to auto-merge. Affected commands: Anything that doesn't
look up data from the branch, but does write a change to it.
It might seem counterintuitive that we can change a value without first
making sure we have the current value. This optimisation works because
these two sequences are equivilant:
1. pull from remote
2. union merge
3. read file from branch
4. modify file and write to branch
vs.
1. read file from branch
2. modify file and write to branch
3. pull from remote
4. union merge
After either sequence, the git-annex branch contains the same logical content
for the modified file. (Possibly with lines in a different order or
additional old lines of course).
The backend usage graph shows present keys as well as keys found in the
repository tree, so it will also be populated for bare repositories.
Changed wording to "visible annex keys", which explains why it's 0 in
a bare repository (no keys visible as no tree), and also why it varies
depending on which branch is checked out. This seemed better than doing
something expensive to look up keys from the git-annex branch.
Checks location log information, and file contents.
Does not check that numcopies is satisfied, as .gitattributes information
about numcopies is not available in a bare repository. In practice, that
should not be a problem, since fsck is also run in a checkout and will
check numcopies there.
Using a single strictness annotation, in just the right place.
Tried several others, none of which helped and some of which potentially
hurt. This is only the second time I've really had to deal with this in
a year of using haskell, which is, I suppose not that bad.
All commands that often have to read a lot of information from
the git-annex branch should now be nearly as fast as before
the branch was introduced.
Before fsck was taking approximatly 3 hours, now it's running in 8 minutes.
The code is very nasty. It should be rewritten to read the header line
from git cat-file, and then read the specified number of bytes of content.
