These were a mistake, they make the type signatures harder to read and
less flexible. The CommandSeek, CommandStart, CommandPerform, and
CommandCleanup types were a good idea, but composing them with the
parameters expected is going too far.
The tricky part about this is that to generate a key, the file must be
present already. Worked around by adding (back) an URL key type, which
is used for addurl --fast.
The only remaining vestiage of backends is different types of keys. These
are still called "backends", mostly to avoid needing to change user interface
and configuration. But everything to do with storing keys in different
backends was gone; instead different types of remotes are used.
In the refactoring, lots of code was moved out of odd corners like
Backend.File, to closer to where it's used, like Command.Drop and
Command.Fsck. Quite a lot of dead code was removed. Several data structures
became simpler, which may result in better runtime efficiency. There should
be no user-visible changes.
For example, this could happen if using SHA1 and a file with content
"foo" were added to that backend. Then a file with "content" foo were
migrated from the WORM backend.
Assume that, if a backend assigned the same key, the already annexed
content must be the same. So, the "old" content can be reused.
Free space checking is now done, for transfers of data for keys that have free space metadata.
(Notably, not for SHA* keys generated with git-annex 0.24 or earlier.)
The code is believed to work on Linux, FreeBSD, and OSX; check compile-time
messages to see if it is not enabled for your OS.
Rename Locations functions for better consitency, and make their values
more consistent too.
Used </> rather than manually building paths. There are still more places
that manually do so, but are tricky, due to the behavior of </> when
the second FilePath is absolute. So I only changed places where
it obviously was relative.
