--batch combined with -J now runs batch requests concurrently for many
commands. Before, the combination was accepted, but did not enable
concurrency. Since the output of batch requests can be in any order, --json
with the new "input" field is recommended to be used, to determine which
batch request each response corresponds to.
If --json is not used, batch mode still runs concurrently, using the usual
concurrent-output. That will not be very useful for most batch mode users,
probably, but who knows.
If a program was using --batch -J before, and was parsing non-json output,
this could break it. But, it was relying on git-annex not supporting
concurrency despite it being enabled, so it should have expected concurrent
output. So, I think that's ok.
annex.jobs does not enable concurrency in --batch mode, because that would
confuse programs that use --batch but don't expect concurrency.
So these special remotes are always supported.
IIRC these build flags were added because the dep chains were a bit too
long, or perhaps because the libraries were not available in Debian stable,
or something like that. That was long ago, those reasons no longer apply,
and users get confused when builtin special remotes are not available, so
it seems best to remove the build flags now.
If this does cause a problem it can be reverted of course..
This commit was sponsored by Jochen Bartl on Patreon.
Works better with automatic merge conflict resolution than git's ususual
default of "conflict".
This is not done when automatic merge conflict resolution is disabled.
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This case was handled by cleanConflictCruft, but only when the annexed
file's object was present. When not present, it left the annexed file
with the original name, not checked into git, while adding the variant
file. So, add an explicit deletion of the deleted file in this case.
My specific case where this happened actually involves
merge.directoryRenames=conflict. After a merge involving that,
the situation was the file appears as "added by them", because that
caused the file that they added to be moved into a directory we renamed.
That case is the same as them adding a modified version of the file,
while we deleted it. (Except for the history of the file, since it's a
new file, but this doesn't look at history.)
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This does not actually change how the merge conflict is resolved when
one side deleted the file, but it was not documented before, and I think
it only worked by accident.
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One reason is, 5 is an arbitrary number so ought to be configurable.
The real reason though, is I wanted to make the man page explain when
forward retry can override annex.retry, and having a config made the
man page easier to write.
