The normalisation of filenames turns out to be the tricky part here,
because the associated files coming out of the keys db may look like
"./foo/bar" or "../bar". For the former to match a glob like "foo/*",
it needs to be normalised.
Note that, on windows, normalise "./foo/bar" = "foo\\bar"
which a glob like "foo/*" won't match. So the glob is matched a second
time, on the toInternalGitPath, so allowing the user to provide a glob
with the slashes in either direction. However, this still won't support
some wacky edge cases like the user providing a glob of "foo/bar\\*"
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
* drop: When two files have the same content, and a preferred content
expression matches one but not the other, do not drop the file.
* sync --content, assistant: Fix an edge case where a file that is not
preferred content did not get dropped.
The sync --content edge case is that handleDropsFrom loaded associated files
and used them without verifying that the information from the database was
not stale.
It seemed best to avoid changing --want-drop's behavior, this way when
debugging a preferred content expression with it, the files matched will
still reflect the expression. So added a note to the --want-drop documentation,
to make clear it may not behave identically to git-annex drop --auto.
While it would be possible to introspect the preferred content
expression to see if it matches on filenames, and only look up the
associated files when it does, it's generally fairly rare for 2 files to
have the same content, and the database lookup is already avoided when
there's only 1 file, so I did not implement that further optimisation.
Note that there are still some situations where the associated files
database does not get locked files recorded in it, which will prevent
this fix from working.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
Useful for dropping old objects from cache repositories.
But also, quite a genrally useful thing to have..
Rather than imitiating find's -atime and other options, all of which are
pretty horrible to use, I made this match files accessed within a time
period, using the same duration format used by git-annex schedule and
--limit-time
In passing, changed the --limit-time option parser to parse the
duration, instead of having it later throw an error.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
Added --securehash option to match files using a secure hash function, and
corresponding securehash preferred content expression.
This commit was sponsored by Ethan Aubin.
