Rescued from commit 11d6e2e260 which removed
db benchmarks in favor of benchmarking arbitrary git-annex commands. Which
is nice and general, but microbenchmarks are useful too.
Code change should be trvial, but not yet implemented. This
significantly complicated the task of documenting how git-annex works.
I'm not sure how useful the annex.gitaddtoannex confguration is after
this change; seems that if a user has an annex.largefiles they will want
it applied consistently. But the last thing I want to hear is more
complaining from users about git add doing something they don't want it
to.
There's a pretty high risk users who got used to the git add behavior
and don't have annex.largefiles configured will miss the NEWS and
complain bitterly about their suddenly bloated repositories. Oh well.
Removed outdated comments about the old behavior to avoid confusion.
I don't know if I've found all the places that griping spread to.
Added annex.gitaddtoannex configuration. Setting it to false prevents
git add from usually adding files to the annex.
(Unless the file was annexed before, or a renamed annexed file is detected.)
Currently left at true; some users are encouraging it be set to false.
Renamed unlocked files are now detected, and will always be
annexed, unless annex.largefiles disallows it.
This allows for git add's behavior to later be changed to otherwise
not annex files (whether by default or as a config option), without
worrying about the rename case.
This is not a major behavior change; annexing is still the default. But
there is one case where the behavior is changed, I think for the better:
touch f
git -c annex.largefiles=nothing add f
git add bigfile
git commit -m ...
mv bigfile f
git add f
Before, git-annex would see that f was previously not annexed,
and so the renamed bigfile content gets added to git. Now, it notices
that the inode is the one that bigfile used, and so it annexes it.
This potentially slows down git add a lot in some repositories because
of the poor performance of isInodeKnown when there are a lot of unlocked
files. Configuring annex.largefiles avoids the speed hit.
The only good thing about it is it does not require a major version bump
to improve the database. That will need to happen at some point though.
Potentially very very slow in a large repository.
Ugly use of raw sql.
