Remaining things needing converted are in the assistant, and Annex.Ssh.
Every other remaining call to createDirectoryIfMissing True has been
audited and is not relevant. The ones in Build/ of course don't get
included in the program. Others included eg, Remote.Tahoe and
Config.Files which both write to dotfiles under the home directory.
Since it was used on both worktree and .git/annex files, split into
multiple functions.
In passing, this also improves permissions of created directories in
.git/annex, using createAnnexDirectory on those.
It will create foo/.git/annex/, but not foo/.git/ and not foo/.
This will avoid it creating an empty path to a repo when a drive is
yanked out and the mount point goes away, for example.
Noticed that it gets the CWD unncessarily when the path is absolute.
I have not benchmarked this, but I guess that the small overhead of
isAbsolute is so tiny compared to the system call that it's worth
it even if most of the time relative paths are passed to absPath.
In several cases, there's an old, maybe unmaintained special remote,
and rclone also supports the service. I don't know which is better,
so I added tips pages for these, listing both possibilies, so users can
fill in the details.
Added some things listed in special_remotes/rclone that were not
in the cloud provider list, so users will see it supports those.
But, omitted S3 and webdav, since it's probably better for users to use
what's built into git-annex than going via rclone.
The rclone list is out of date apparently, as rclone.org has more,
so I added a note at the bottom for users to check.
This commit was sponsored by Ethan Aubin.
