I'd prefer to use the env var, but let's use what git currently supports.
Revert this when the env var gets supported.
Note that the version checking assumes git 2.8.2 will get support for the
switch.
git 2.8.1 (or perhaps 2.9.0) is going to prevent git merge from merging in
unrelated branches. Since the webapp's pairing etc features often combine
together repositories with unrelated histories, work around this behavior
change by setting GIT_MERGE_ALLOW_UNRELATED_HISTORIES when the assistant
merges.
Note though that this is not done for git annex sync's merges, so
it will follow git's default or configured behavior.
This is how direct mode does it too, and somehow, for reasons that
currently escape me, this makes git merge not care if it's run with an
empty work tree.
Support users who have set commit.gpgsign, by disabling gpg signatures for
git-annex branch commits and commits made by the assistant.
The thinking here is that a user sets commit.gpgsign intending the commits
that they manually initiate to be gpg signed. But not commits made in the
background, whether by a deamon or implicitly to the git-annex branch.
gpg signing those would be at best a waste of CPU and at worst would fail,
or flood the user with gpg passphrase prompts, or put their signature on
changes they did not directly do.
See Debian bug #753720.
Also makes all commits done by git-annex go through a few central control
points, to make such changes easier in future.
Also disables commit.gpgsign in the test suite.
This commit was sponsored by Antoine Boegli.
It was possible for a interrupted sync or merge in direct mode to
leave the work tree out of sync with the last recorded commit.
This would result in the next commit seeing files missing from the work
tree, and committing their removal.
Now, a direct mode merge happens not only in a throwaway work tree, but using
a temporary index file, and without any commits or index changes
being made until the real work tree has been updated. If the merge is
interrupted, the work tree may have some updated files, but worst case a
commit will redundantly commit changes that come from the merge.
This commit was sponsored by Tony Cantor.
Removed instance, got it all to build using fromRef. (With a few things
that really need to show something using a ref for debugging stubbed out.)
Then added back Read instance, and made Logs.View use it for serialization.
This changes the view log format.
Pass subcommand as a regular param, which allows passing git parameters
like -c before it. This was already done in the pipeing set of functions,
but not the command running set.
