Improved support for using git-annex in a read-only repository, git-annex
branch information from remotes that cannot be merged into the git-annex
branch will now not crash it, but will be merged in memory.
To avoid this making git-annex behave one way in a read-only repository,
and another way when it can write, it's important that Annex.Branch.get
return the same thing (modulo log file compaction) in both cases.
This manages that mostly. There are some exceptions:
- When there is a transition in one of the remote git-annex branches
that has not yet been applied to the local or other git-annex branches.
Transitions are not handled.
- `git-annex log` runs git log on the git-annex branch, and so
it will not be able to show information coming from the other, not yet
merged branches.
- Annex.Branch.files only looks at files in the git-annex branch and not
unmerged branches. This affects git-annex info output.
- Annex.Branch.hs.overBranchFileContents ditto. Affects --all and
also importfeed (but importfeed cannot work in a read-only repo
anyway).
- CmdLine.Seek.seekFilteredKeys when precaching location logs.
Note use of Annex.Branch.fullname
- Database.ContentIdentifier.needsUpdateFromLog and updateFromLog
These warts make this not suitable to be merged yet.
This readonly code path is more expensive, since it has to query several
branches. The value does get cached, but still large queries will be
slower in a read-only repository when there are unmerged git-annex
branches.
When annex.merge-annex-branches=false, updateTo skips doing anything,
and so the read-only repository code does not get triggered. So a user who
is bothered by the extra work can set that.
Other writes to the repository can still result in permissions errors.
This includes the initial creation of the git-annex branch, and of course
any writes to the git-annex branch.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
sync, merge, post-receive: Avoid merging unrelated histories, which used to
be allowed only to support direct mode repositories.
(However, sync does still merge unrelated histories when importing trees
from special remotes, and the assistant still merges unrelated histories
always.)
See 556b2ded2b for why this was added
back in 2016, for direct mode.
This is a behavior change, which might break something that was relying
on sync merging unrelated histories, but git had a good reason to
prevent it, since it's easy to foot shoot with it, and git-annex should
follow suit.
Sponsored-by: Noam Kremen on Patreon
* sync: When --quiet is used, run git commit, push, and pull without
their ususual output.
* merge: When --quiet is used, run git merge without its usual output.
This might also make --quiet work better for some other commands
that make commits, like git-annex adjust.
Sponsored-by: Kevin Mueller on Patreon
Remove old code that can be trivially implemented using async in a much
nicer way (that is async exception safe).
I've audited all forkOS calls (except for ones in the assistant),
and this was the last remaining one that is not async exception safe.
The rest look ok to me.
Try to enable special remotes configured with autoenable=yes when git-annex
auto-initialization happens in a new clone of an existing repo. Previously,
git-annex init had to be explicitly run to enable them. That was a bit of a
wart of a special case for users to need to keep in mind.
Special remotes cannot display anything when autoenabled this way, to avoid
interfering with the output of git-annex query commands.
Any error messages will be hidden, and if it fails, nothing is displayed.
The user will realize the remote isn't enable when they try to use it,
and can run git-annex init manually then to try the autoenable again and
see what failed.
That seems like a reasonable approach, and it's less complicated than
communicating something across a pipe in order to display it as a side
message. Other reason not to do that is that, if the first command the
user runs is one like git-annex find that has machine readable output,
any message about autoenable failing would need to not be displayed anyway.
So better to not display a failure message ever, for consistency.
(Had to split out Remote.List.Util to avoid an import cycle.)
The journal read optimisation in aeca7c220 later got fixed in eedd73b84
to stage and commit any files that were left in the journal by a
previous git-annex run. That's necessary for the optimisation to work
correctly. But it also meant that alwayscommit=false started committing
the previous git-annex processes journalled changes, which defeated the
purpose of the config setting entirely.
So, disable the optimisation when alwayscommit=false, leaving the
files in the journal and not committing them. See my comments on the bug
report for why this seemed the best approach.
Also fixes a problem when annex.merge-annex-branches=false and there
are changes in the journal. That config indirectly prevents committing
the journal. (Which seems a bit odd given its name, but it always has..)
So, when there were changes in the journal, perhaps left there due to
alwayscommit=false being set before, the optimisation would prevent
git-annex from reading the journal files, and it would operate with out
of date information.
remoteAnnexConfig will avoid bugs like
a3a674d15b
Use now more generic remoteConfig in a couple places that built
non-annex config settings manually before.
* Added sync --only-annex, which syncs the git-annex branch and annexed
content but leaves managing the other git branches up to you.
* Added annex.synconlyannex git config setting, which can also be set with
git-annex config to configure sync in all clones of the repo.
Use case is then the user has their own git workflow, and wants to use
git-annex without disrupting that, so they sync --only-annex to get the
git-annex stuff in sync in addition to their usual git workflow.
When annex.synconlyannex is set, --not-only-annex can be used to override
it.
It's not entirely clear what --only-annex --commit or --only-annex
--push should do, and I left that combination not documented because I
don't know if I might want to change the current behavior, which is that
such options do not override the --only-annex. My gut feeling is that
there is no good reasons to use such combinations; if you want to use
your own git workflow, you'll be doing your own committing and pulling
and pushing.
A subtle question is, how should import/export special remotes be handled?
Importing updates their remote tracking branch and merges it into master.
If --only-annex prevented that git branch stuff, then it would prevent
exporting to the special remote, in the case where it has changes that
were not imported yet, because there would be a unresolved conflict.
I decided that it's best to treat the fact that there's a remote tracking
branch for import/export as an implementation detail in this case. The more
important thing is that an import/export special remote is entirely annexed
content, and so it makes a lot of sense that --only-annex will still sync
with it.
This does not change the overall license of the git-annex program, which
was already AGPL due to a number of sources files being AGPL already.
Legally speaking, I'm adding a new license under which these files are
now available; I already released their current contents under the GPL
license. Now they're dual licensed GPL and AGPL. However, I intend
for all my future changes to these files to only be released under the
AGPL license, and I won't be tracking the dual licensing status, so I'm
simply changing the license statement to say it's AGPL.
(In some cases, others wrote parts of the code of a file and released it
under the GPL; but in all cases I have contributed a significant portion
of the code in each file and it's that code that is getting the AGPL
license; the GPL license of other contributors allows combining with
AGPL code.)
Both Command.Sync and Annex.Ingest had their own versions of this.
The one in Annex.Ingest used Git.Branch.currentUnsafe, but does not seem
to need it. That is only checking to see if it's in an adjusted unlocked
branch, and when in an adjusted branch, the branch does in fact exist,
so the added check that Git.Branch.current does is fine.
This commit was sponsored by Denis Dzyubenko on Patreon.
Added annex.commitmessage config that can specify a commit message for the
git-annex branch instead of the usual "update".
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
This is groundwork for letting a repo be instantiated the first time
it's actually used, instead of at startup.
The only behavior change is that some old special cases for xmpp remotes
were removed. Where before git-annex silently did nothing with those
no-longer supported remotes, it may now fail in some way.
The additional IO action should have no performance impact as long as
it's simply return.
This commit was sponsored by Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on Patreon
Needed so that the assistant can download from exports.
updateExportTreeFromLog is normally only run one time, but needs to be
run repeatedly during the lifetime of the assistant.
This commit was sponsored by Ethan Aubin on Patreon.
This is similar to the pusher thread, but a separate thread because git
pushes can be done in parallel with exports, and updating a big export
should not prevent other git pushes going out in the meantime.
The exportThread only runs at most every 30 seconds, since updating an
export is more expensive than pushing. This may need to be tuned.
Added a separate channel for export commits; the committer records a
commit in that channel.
Also, reconnectRemotes records a dummy commit, to make the exporter
thread wake up and make sure all exports are up-to-date. So,
connecting a drive with a directory special remote export will
immediately update it, and getting online will automatically
update S3 and WebDAV exports.
The transfer queue is not involved in exports. Instead, failed
exports are retried much like failed pushes.
This commit was sponsored by Ewen McNeill.
Added remote configuration settings annex-ignore-command and
annex-sync-command, which are dynamic equivilants of the annex-ignore
and annex-sync configurations.
For this I needed a new DynamicConfig infrastructure. Its implementation
should be as fast as before when there is no dynamic config, and it caches
so shell commands are only run once.
Note that annex-ignore-command exits nonzero when the remote should be ignored.
While that may seem backwards, it allows using the same command for it as
for annex-sync-command when you want to disable both.
This commit was sponsored by Trenton Cronholm on Patreon.
* Added annex.resolvemerge configuration, which can be set to false to
disable the usual automatic merge conflict resolution done by git-annex
sync and the assistant.
* sync: Added --no-resolvemerge option.
Note that disabling merge conflict resolution is probably not a good idea
in a direct mode repo or adjusted branch. Since updates to both are done
outside the usual work tree, if it fails the tree is not left in a
conflicted state, and it would be hard to manually resolve the conflict.
Still, made annex.resolvemerge be supported in those cases for consistency.
This commit was sponsored by Riku Voipio.
The former can be useful to make remotes that don't get fully synced with
local changes, which comes up in a lot of situations.
The latter was mostly added for symmetry, but could be useful (though less
likely to be).
Implementing `remote.<name>.annex-pull` was a bit tricky, as there's no one
place where git-annex pulls/fetches from remotes. I audited all
instances of "fetch" and "pull". A few cases were left not checking this
config:
* Git.Repair can try to pull missing refs from a remote, and if the local
repo is corrupted, that seems a reasonable thing to do even though
the config would normally prevent it.
* Assistant.WebApp.Gpg and Remote.Gcrypt and Remote.Git do fetches
as part of the setup process of a remote. The config would probably not
be set then, and having the setup fail seems worse than honoring it if it
is already set.
I have not prevented all the code that does a "merge" from merging branches
from remotes with remote.<name>.annex-pull=false. That could perhaps
be done, but it would need a way to map from branch name to remote name,
and the way refspecs work makes that hard to get really correct. So if the
user fetches manually, the git-annex branch will get merged, for example.
Anther way of looking at/justifying this is that the setting is called
"annex-pull", not "annex-merge".
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
This makes merging a remote into a freshly created direct mode repository
work the same as it works in indirect mode.
The git-annex branches would get merged in any case by a sync,
since that doesn't use git merge.
This might need to be revisited later to better mirror git's behavior.
I've long considered the XMPP support in git-annex a wart.
It's nice to remove it.
(This also removes the NetMessager, which was only used for XMPP, and the
daemonstatus's desynced list (likewise).)
Existing XMPP remotes should be ignored by git-annex.
This commit was sponsored by Brock Spratlen on Patreon.
Note that get --from foo --failed will get things that a previous get --from bar
tried and failed to get, etc. I considered making --failed only retry
transfers from the same remote, but it was easier, and seems more useful,
to not have the same remote requirement.
Noisy due to some refactoring into Types/
git 2.8.1 (or perhaps 2.9.0) is going to prevent git merge from merging in
unrelated branches. Since the webapp's pairing etc features often combine
together repositories with unrelated histories, work around this behavior
change by setting GIT_MERGE_ALLOW_UNRELATED_HISTORIES when the assistant
merges.
Note though that this is not done for git annex sync's merges, so
it will follow git's default or configured behavior.
So, it will pull and push the original branch, not the adjusted one.
And, for merging, it will use updateAdjustedBranch (not implemented yet).
Note that remaining uses of Git.Branch.current need to be checked too;
for things that should act on the original branch, and not the adjusted
branch.
When in direct mode, update the master branch after committing to the
annex/direct/master branch. Also, update the synced/master branch.
This fixes a topology A->B where both A and B are in direct mode and
running the assistant, and a change is made to B. Before this fix, A pulled
the changes from B, but since they were only on the annex/direct/master
branch, it did not merge them.
Note that I considered making the assistant merge the
remotes/B/annex/direct/master, but decided to keep it simple and only merge
the sync branches as before.
a ssh remote, and pulls.
XMPP is no longer needed in this configuration!
Requires the remote server have git-annex-shell with notifychanges support.
(untested)
This commit was sponsored by Geog Wechslberger.
* sync --content: Honor annex-ignore configuration.
* sync: Don't try to sync with xmpp remotes, which are only currently
supported when using the assistant.
Added a RemoteChecker thread, that waits for problems to be reported with
remotes, and checks if their git repository is in need of repair.
Currently, only failures to sync with the remote cause a problem to be
reported. This seems enough, but we'll see.
Plugging in a removable drive with a repository on it that is corrupted
does automatically repair the repository, as long as the corruption causes
git push or git pull to fail. Some types of corruption do not, eg
missing/corrupt objects for blobs that git push doesn't need to look at.
So, this is not really a replacement for scheduled git repository fscking.
But it does make the assistant more robust.
This commit is sponsored by Fernando Jimenez.
(Except for the actual streaming of receive-pack through XMPP, which
can only run once we've gotten an appropriate uuid in a push initiation
message.)
Pushes are now only initiated when the initiation message comes from a
known uuid. This allows multiple distinct repositories to use the same xmpp
address.
Note: This probably breaks initial push after xmpp pairing, because at that
point we may not know about the paired uuid, and so reject the push from
it. It won't break in simple cases, because the annex-uuid of the remote
is checked. However, when there are multiple clients behind a single xmpp
address, only uuid of the first is recorded in annex-uuid, and so any
pushes from the others will be rejected (unless the first remote pushes their
uuids to us beforehand.
This is so git remotes on servers without git-annex installed can be used
to keep clients' git repos in sync.
This is a behavior change, but since annex-sync can be set to disable
syncing with a remote, I think it's acceptable.
