While redundant concurrent transfers were already prevented in most
cases, it failed to prevent the case where two different repositories were
sending the same content to the same repository. By removing the uuid
from the transfer lock file for Download transfers, one repository
sending content will block the other one from also sending the same
content.
In order to interoperate with old git-annex, the old lock file is still
locked, as well as locking the new one. That added a lot of extra code
and work, and the plan is to eventually stop locking the old lock file,
at some point in time when an old git-annex process is unlikely to be
running at the same time.
Note that in the case of 2 repositories both doing eg
`git-annex copy foo --to origin`
the output is not that great:
copy b (to origin...)
transfer already in progress, or unable to take transfer lock
git-annex: transfer already in progress, or unable to take transfer lock
97% 966.81 MiB 534 GiB/s 0sp2pstdio: 1 failed
Lost connection (fd:14: hPutBuf: resource vanished (Broken pipe))
Transfer failed
Perhaps that output could be cleaned up? Anyway, it's a lot better than letting
the redundant transfer happen and then failing with an obscure error about
a temp file, which is what it did before. And it seems users don't often
try to do this, since nobody ever reported this bug to me before.
(The "97%" there is actually how far along the *other* transfer is.)
Sponsored-by: Joshua Antonishen on Patreon
Only display warning when git-annex sync (without --content or
--no-content) is used with repositories that have preferred content
configured.
Sponsored-by: Leon Schuermann on Patreon
When used without --content or --no-content, warn about the upcoming
transition, and suggest using one of the options, or setting
annex.synccontent.
Sponsored-by: Brett Eisenberg on Patreon
I would like for a new repo version to enable appends, but to do so
safely would need a v11 followed by a 1 year delay followed by a v12
that does it. Since a similar v9 and v10 transition is currently
happening, and is less than 6 months along in most repos, it does not
feel wise to stack up another year-long transition behind that. What if
I need to hurry up a new repo version for some other change?
Added todo so I remember to make this change at some time when a v11
and probably v12 repo version do make sense.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's DANDI project
