This is actually worse than I thought; when git is being run with a
detached work tree, GIT_INDEX_FILE is treated as a path relative to CWD,
instead of the normal behavior of relative the top of the work tree.
This seems to make it basically impossible for any program that wants to
use GIT_INDEX_FILE to use anything other than an absolute path to it; there
are too many configurations to keep straight that can change how git
interprets what should be a simple relative path to a file.
(I have complained to the git developers.)
This affected git annex view. It turns out that some other places
that use GIT_INDEX_FILE were already working around the bug. I removed the
workaround from Annex.Branch since the new workaround will do.
Could not think of a foolproof way to detect if the old adjusted branch was
just behind the current branch. It's possible that the user amended the
adjusting commit at the head of the adjusted branch, for example.
I decided to bail in this situation, instead of just entering the old
branch, so that if git annex adjust succeeds the user is always in a
*current* adjusted branch, not some old and out of date one.
What could perhaps be done is enter the old branch and then update it. But
that seems too magical; the user may have rebased master or something or
may not want to propigate the changes from the old branch. Best to error
out.
It started exporting a isSymbolicLink which supports windows. But,
git-annex does no use symlinks on windows yet and this conflicts with the
function by the same name from unix-compat, so hide it.
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.
When git-annex is used with a git version older than 2.2.0, disable support for
adjusted branches, since GIT_COMMON_DIR is needed to update them and was first
added in that version of git.
Made all Annex.Perms file mode changing functions ignore errors when
core.sharedRepository is set, because the file might be owned by someone
else. I don't fancy getting bug reports about crashes due to set modes in
this configuration, which is a very foot-shooty configuration in the first
place.
The fsck warning is necessary because old repos kept files mode 444, which
doesn't allow locking them, and so if the mode remains 444 due to the file
being owned by someone else, the user should be told about it.
When annex.thin is set, adding an object will add the execute bits to the
work tree file, and this does mean that the annex object file ends up
executable.
This doesn't add any complexity that wasn't already present, because git
annex add of an executable file has always ingested it so that the annex
object ends up executable.
But, since an annex object file can be executable or not, when populating
an unlocked file from one, the executable bit is always added or removed
to match the mode of the pointer file.
This is how direct mode does it too, and somehow, for reasons that
currently escape me, this makes git merge not care if it's run with an
empty work tree.
Was using L.readFile, so the Handle would remain open until the garbage
collector got around to it. Changed to explicit open and close, so we know
it's always closed when the function returns.
This makes the direct mode to v6 upgrade able to be performed in one clone
of a repository without affecting other clones, which can continue using v5
and direct mode.
This does mean that it has to write out temp files containing updated
objects for the merge. So may use more disk space, and disk IO, but that
should generally win out over needing to launch N separate
git hash-object processes.
An unlocked present file does not have a pointer file in the worktree, so
info skipped counting it.
It may be that unused was also affected by the problem, but it seemed not
to be in my tests. I think because of the use of the associatedFilesFilter.
This fix slows down both info and unused a little bit, since they have to
query the contents of files from git, but only when handling unlocked files.
Only reverse adjust the changes in the commit, which means that adjustments
do not need to be generally cleanly reversable.
For example, an adjustment can unlock all locked files, but does not need
to worry about files that were originally unlocked when reversing, because
it will only ever be run on files that have been changed. So, it's ok
if it locks all files when reversed, or even leaves all files as-is when
reversed.
Using adjusted/unlocked/master made lots of git stuff dealing with "master"
complain that it was ambiguous. This new appoach is more like view branch
names, and shows the adjustment right there in the branch display even if
only the basename of the branch is shown.
There's a race here, but entering an adjusted branch for the first time is
not something to do when a commit is being made at the same time. Although,
may want to prevent the assistant from committing while entering the
adjusted branch.
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.
"git annex adjust" may be a temporary interface, but works for a proof of
concept.
It is pretty fast at creating the adjusted branch. The main overhead is
injecting pointer files. It might be worth optimising that by reusing the
symlink target as the pointer file content. When I tried to do that,
the problem was that the clean filter doesn't use that same format, and so
git thought files had changed. Could be dealt with, perhaps make the clean
filter use symlink format for pointer files when on an adjusted branch?
But the real overhead is in checking out the branch, when git runs the
smudge filter once per file. That is perhaps too slow to be usable,
although it may only affect initial checkout of the branch, and not
updates. TBD.
* add, addurl, import, importfeed: When in a v6 repository on a crippled
filesystem, add files unlocked.
* annex.addunlocked: New configuration setting, makes files always be
added unlocked. (v6 only)
The problem with having the slashes unescaped is, it broke parsing, since
the parser takes the filename to get the part containing the key.
That particularly affected URL keys.
This makes the format be the same as symlinks point to, which keeps things
simple.
Existing pointer files will continue to work ok.
Before, the call to mkProgressUpdater created the directory as a
side-effect, but since that ignored failure to create it, this led to
a "does not exist" exception when the transfer lock file was created,
rather than a permissions error.
So, make sure the directory exists before trying to lock the file in it.
When a PermissionDenied exception is caught, skip making the transfer lock.
This lets downloads from readonly remotes happen.
If an upload is being tried, and the lock file can't be written due to
permissions, then probably the actual transfer will fail for the same
reason, so I think it's ok that it continues w/o taking the lock in that
case.
