I had a transfer of 3 files fail like this:
git-annex: transferrer protocol error: "(recording state in git...)"
The remote had stalldetection enabled, although I didn't see it stall.
So git-annex transferrer would have been started up. I guess that
one of these new git-annex branch reads, that happens early, caused
that message due to perhaps an uncommitted git-annex branch change.
Since the transferrer speaks a protocol over stdout, it needs to be
prevented from outputting other messages to stdout. Interestingly,
startupAnnex is run after prepRunCommand, so if a command requests quiet
output it would already be quiet. But the transferrer does not, instead
it calls Annex.setOutput SerializedOutput in its start action.
This is to avoid inserting a cluster uuid into the location log when
only dead nodes in the cluster contain the content of a key.
One reason why this is necessary is Remote.keyLocations, which excludes
dead repositories from the list. But there are probably many more.
Implementing this was challenging, because Logs.Location importing
Logs.Cluster which imports Logs.Trust which imports Remote.List resulted
in an import cycle through several other modules.
Resorted to making Logs.Location not import Logs.Cluster, and instead
it assumes that Annex.clusters gets populated when necessary before it's
called.
That's done in Annex.Startup, which is run by the git-annex command
(but not other commands) at early startup in initialized repos. Or,
is run after initialization.
Note that is Remote.Git, it is unable to import Annex.Startup, because
Remote.Git importing Logs.Cluster leads the the same import cycle.
So ensureInitialized is not passed annexStartup in there.
Other commands, like git-annex-shell currently don't run annexStartup
either.
So there are cases where Logs.Location will not see clusters. So it won't add
any cluster UUIDs when loading the log. That's ok, the only reason to do
that is to make display of where objects are located include clusters,
and to make commands like git-annex get --from treat keys as being located
in a cluster. git-annex-shell certainly does not do anything like that,
and I'm pretty sure Remote.Git (and callers to Remote.Git.onLocalRepo)
don't either.
