It takes a single key-value backend, rather than the unncessary and confusing list.
The old option still works if set.
Simplified some old old code too.
This commit was sponsored by Thomas Hochstein on Patreon.
fsck already special-cased dead keys to make --all not report errors with
them, and it makes sense to also expand that to whereis. I think it makes
sense for dead keys to be skipped by all uses of --all, so mistakes can be
completely forgotten about and not come back to haunt us.
The speed impact of testing if the key is dead is negligible for fsck and
whereis, since they use the location log anyway and it gets cached.
This does slow down a few commands that support --all, in particular
metadata --all runs around 2x as slow. I don't think metadata
--all is often used though. It might slow down copy/move/mirror
--all and get --all.
log --all is not affected (does not use the normal --all machinery).
Dead keys will still be processed by --incomplete, --branch,
--failed, and --key. Although it would be unlikely for a dead key to
ave in incomplete or failed transfer. It seems to make perfect sense for
--branch to process keys on the branch, even if dead.
(fsck's special-casing of dead keys was left in, so if one of these options
causes a dead key to be fscked, there will be a nice message.)
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
