Currently, initremote works, but not the other operations. They should be
fairly easy to add from this base.
Also, https://github.com/aristidb/aws/issues/119 blocks internet archive
support.
Note that since http-conduit is used, this also adds https support to S3.
Although git-annex encrypts everything anyway, so that may not be extremely
useful. It is not enabled by default, because existing S3 special remotes
have port=80 in their config. Setting port=443 will enable it.
This commit was sponsored by Daniel Brockman.
Reusing http connection when operating on chunks is not done yet,
I had to submit some patches to DAV to support that. However, this is no
slower than old-style chunking was.
Note that it's a fileRetriever and a fileStorer, despite DAV using
bytestrings that would allow streaming. As a result, upload/download of
encrypted files is made a bit more expensive, since it spools them to temp
files. This was needed to get the progress meters to work.
There are probably ways to avoid that.. But it turns out that the current
DAV interface buffers the whole file content in memory, and I have
sent in a patch to DAV to improve its interfaces. Using the new interfaces,
it's certainly going to need to be a fileStorer, in order to read the file
size from the file (getting the size of a bytestring would destroy
laziness). It should be possible to use the new interface to make it be a
byteRetriever, so I'll change that when I get to it.
This commit was sponsored by Andreas Olsson.
Suppose A is 10 mb, and B is 20 mb, and the upload speed is the same. If B
starts first, when A will overwrite the file it is uploading for the 1st chunk.
Then A uploads the second chunk, and once A is done, B finishes the 1st chunk
and uploads its second. We now have 1(from A), 2(from B), so data loss.
This is a security/usability tradeoff. To avoid exposing the gpg key ids
who can decrypt the repository, users can unset
gcrypt-publish-participants.
The gcrypt-publish-participants option is available in my fork of
git-remote-gcrypt.
This commit was sponsored by Christopher Kernahan.
Known problems:
1. Tries to tahoe start when daemon is already running.
2. If multiple tahoe remotes are set up on the same computer,
they will have the same node.url configured by default,
and this confuses tahoe commands.
This commit was sponsored by LeastAuthority.com
