Cache high-resolution mtimes for improved detection of modified files in v7
(and direct mode).
Including on Windows.
With back-compat support so old low-res mtimes won't break anything, and
so the new information also won't break old versions of git-annex.
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.
