That git fixed a memory leak that could cause an OOM during the upgrade.
Most git-annex builds have a new enough git already.
OSX git was upgraded with brew.
Linux i386ancient build's git was too old. Upgrading it to a fixed
git didn't work (due to the newer git not working with the old ssh,
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/git/issues/detail?id=7 )
Choices to deal with that were:
* Somehow make direct mode upgrade work with the old git, avoiding its
OOM problem. One way would be to switch the repo to indirect mode
first, and so upgrade to a repo with locked files. Not good when
the filesystem does not support symlinks.
* backport the OOM fix from git 2.22
(And do what about the version number so git-annex knows it's fixed?)
* backport openssh (and possibly more stuff)
* move the i386ancient build to at least Debian stretch (still backporting git)
But this will make it no longer work with some of the ancient kernels it
targets.
Of those, backporting the OOM fix seemed the best approach. Put "oomfix"
in the git version number to indicate it.
I have not automated building the git backport, so here's the patch I
used:
diff -ur orig/git-2.1.4/convert.c git-2.1.4/convert.c
--- orig/git-2.1.4/convert.c 2014-12-18 18:42:18.000000000 +0000
+++ git-2.1.4/convert.c 2019-08-29 20:05:04.371872338 +0100
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@
if (start_async(&async))
return 0; /* error was already reported */
- if (strbuf_read(&nbuf, async.out, len) < 0) {
+ if (strbuf_read(&nbuf, async.out, 0) < 0) {
error("read from external filter %s failed", cmd);
ret = 0;
}
diff -ur orig/git-2.1.4/GIT-VERSION-GEN git-2.1.4/GIT-VERSION-GEN
--- orig/git-2.1.4/GIT-VERSION-GEN 2014-12-18 18:42:18.000000000 +0000
+++ git-2.1.4/GIT-VERSION-GEN 2019-08-29 20:06:39.132743228 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.1.4
+DEF_VER=v2.1.4.oomfix
LF='
'
diff -ur orig/git-2.1.4/configure git-2.1.4/configure
--- orig/git-2.1.4/configure 2014-12-18 18:42:19.000000000 +0000
+++ git-2.1.4/configure 2019-08-29 20:27:45.896380015 +0100
@@ -580,8 +580,8 @@
# Identity of this package.
PACKAGE_NAME='git'
PACKAGE_TARNAME='git'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='2.1.4'
-PACKAGE_STRING='git 2.1.4'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='2.1.4.oomfix'
+PACKAGE_STRING='git 2.1.4.oomfix'
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='git@vger.kernel.org'
PACKAGE_URL=''
diff -ur orig/git-2.1.4/version git-2.1.4/version
--- orig/git-2.1.4/version 2014-12-18 18:42:19.000000000 +0000
+++ git-2.1.4/version 2019-08-29 20:06:17.572545210 +0100
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.1.4
+2.1.4.oomfix
If a direct mode file is deleted or modified, and there are no other
files containing the content, the content was lost. That's a normal
thing that can happen in direct mode, but not in v7, so the upgrade
code has to notice it in order for the location log to be accurate.
Systems such as Debian that have overridden the default fpath will need to
set ZSH_COMPLETIONS_PATH.
I feel that Debian is causing unncessary complexity by making this change,
and have filed a bug report about it.
This also means that when git-annex is installed with PREFIX=/usr/local
it will use /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions which works with probably
all versions of zsh.
Its repeated opening and writing to the sqlite database somehow caused
inode cache information to occasionally be lost.
This loses code coverage, since running git-annex as a child process
prevents tracking what parts of the code are exercised. I have not looked
at the code coverage in a long time. It would probably be possible to
collect code coverage for the child procesess and merge it together.
