I've seen intermittent failures of the test suite with v6 for a long time,
it seems to have possibly gotten worse with the changes around v7. Or just
being unlucky; all tests failed today.
Seen on amd64 and i386 builders, repeatedly but intermittently:
unused: FAIL (4.86s)
Test.hs:928:
git diff did not show changes to unlocked file
And I think other such failures, all involving v7/v6 mode tests.
I managed to reproduce the unused failure with --keep-failures,
and inside the repo, git diff was indeed not showing any changes for
the modified unlocked file.
The two stats will be the same other than mtime; the old and new files have
the same size and inode, since the test case writes to the file and then
overwrites it.
Indeed, notice the identical timestamps:
builder@orca:~/gitbuilder/build/.t/tmprepo335$ echo 1 > foo; stat foo; echo 2 > foo; stat foo
File: foo
Size: 2 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 3546179 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ builder) Gid: ( 1000/ builder)
Access: 2018-10-29 22:14:10.894942036 +0000
Modify: 2018-10-29 22:14:10.894942036 +0000
Change: 2018-10-29 22:14:10.894942036 +0000
Birth: -
File: foo
Size: 2 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 3546179 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ builder) Gid: ( 1000/ builder)
Access: 2018-10-29 22:14:10.894942036 +0000
Modify: 2018-10-29 22:14:10.898942036 +0000
Change: 2018-10-29 22:14:10.898942036 +0000
Birth: -
I'm seeing this in Linux VMs; it doesn't happen on my laptop. I've also
not experienced the intermittent test suite failures on my laptop.
So, I hope that this small delay will avoid the problem.
Update: I didn't, indeed I then reproduced the same failure on my
laptop, so it must be due to something else. But keeping this change anyway
since not needing to worry about lowish-resolution mtime in the test suite seems
worthwhile.
Removed undocumented special case in handling of a CHECKURL-MULTI response
with only a single file listed. Rather than ignoring the url that was in
the response, use it. This allows external special remotes that want to
provide some better url to do so, although I don't entirely agree with
using CHECKURL-MULTI to accomplish that. I'm more of the feeling that an
undocumented special case that throws data away is just not a good idea.
This could in theory break some external special remote program that relied
on the current behavior, but its seems unlikely that it would because such
a program must already handle the multiple url case, unless it only ever
provides a single url response to CHECKURL-MULTI.
Make addurl --file work with a single item CHECKURL-MULTI response.
It already did for external special remotes due to the special case,
but now it also will for builtin ones like the BitTorrent special remote.
This commit was sponsored by Ilya Shlyakhter on Patron.
git-annex init on the sdcard will now create a v7 adjusted unlocked
repo. While the assistant does still set up direct mode, that's not
because of /sdcard being a crippled filesystem.
This is safe, because while the annex object ends up executable,
there were already at least two other cases where it ended up executable:
1. git add an an executable file
2. chmod +x of a a non-executable worktree file that was hard linked to the
annex object
After copy/hard link, it always fixes up the permissions to match the mode
of the worktree file, so when an executable annex object gets hard linked
to a non-executable worktree file, its execute bit gets removed.
Commit b7c8bf5274 already *said* it would do
this; I suspect the line of code I've removed was included in that commit
accidentially.
Also improves annex.thin documentation.
This commit was sponsored by Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on Patreon.
Install new git hooks in this version.
This does beg the question of what to do if git later gets eg a
post-smudge hook, that could run git-annex smudge --update. I think the
thing to do in that case would be to make git-annex smudge --update
install the new hooks. That way, as the user uses git-annex, the hook
would be created pretty quickly and without needing any extra syscalls
except for when git-annex smudge --update is called.
I considered doing something like that for installation of the
post-checkout and post-merge hooks, which would have avoided the need
for v7. But the only place it was cheap to do it would be in git-annex smudge
which could cheaply notice that smudge.log didn't exist yet and so know
the hooks needed to be installed. But since smudge used to populate pointer
files, it would be quite surprising if a single git checkout/merge failed
to update the work tree, and so that idea didn't work out.
The other reason for v7 is psychological -- users don't need to worry
about whether they might be running an old version of git-annex that
doesn't support their v7 repository very well. And bug reports about
"v6" have gotten a bit of a bad association in my head since they often
hit one of the known limitations and didn't realize it was experimental.
newtyped RepoVersion Int to avoid needing 2 comparisons in
versionSupportsUnlockedPointers etc. Also it's just nicer.
This commit was sponsored by John Pellman on Patreon.
