Speed up importing trees from special remotes somewhat by avoiding
redundant writes to sqlite database.
Before, import would write to both the git-annex branch and also to the
sqlite database. But then the next time it was run, needsUpdateFromLog
would see the branch had changed, so run updateFromLog, which would make
the same writes to the sqlite database a second time.
Now import writes only to the git-annex branch. The next time it's run,
needsUpdateFromLog sees that the branch has changed and so calls
updateFromLog, which updates the sqlite database.
Why defer the write to the sqlite database like this? It seems that it
could write to the database as it goes, and at the end call
recordAnnexBranchTree to indicate that the information in the git-annex
branch has all been written to the cidsdb. That would avoid the second
import doing extra work.
But, there could be other processes running at the same time, and one of
them may update the git-annex branch, eg merging a remote git-annex branch
into it. Any cids logs on that merged git-annex branch would not be
reflected in the cidsdb yet. If the import then called
recordAnnexBranchTree, the cidsdb would never get updated with that merged
information.
I don't think there's a good way to prevent, or to detect that situation.
So, it can't call recordAnnexBranchTree at the end. So it might as well
wait until the next run and do updateFromLog then. It could instead do
updateFromLog at the end, but it's going to check needsUpdateFromLog
at the beginning anyway.
Note that the database writes were queued, so there is already a cidmap
that is used to remember changes that the current process has made.
So, omitting database writes can't change the behavior of the current
process.
Also note that thirdpartypopulatedimport uses recordcidkeyindb, which
reflects what it already did. That code path does not use the cidmap,
but does not need to query it either. It might be possible to make that
code path also only update the git-annex branch and not the db, but I
haven't checked.
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I noticed git-annex was using a lot of CPU when downloading from youtube,
and was not displaying progress. Turns out that yt-dlp (and I think also
youtube-dl) sometimes only knows an estimated size, not the actual size,
and displays the progress output slightly differently for that. That broke
the parser. And, the parser was feeding chunks that failed to parse back
as a remainder, which caused it to try to re-parse the entire output each
time, so it got slower and slower.
Using --progress-template like this should avoid parsing problems as well
as future proof against output changes. But it will work with only yt-dlp.
So, this seemed like the right time to deprecate youtube-dl, and default
to yt-dlp when available.
git-annex will still use youtube-dl if that's all that's available.
However, since the progress parser for youtube-dl was buggy, and I don't
want to maintain two different progress parsers (especially since
youtube-dl is no longer in debian unstable having been replaced by
yt-dlp), made git-annex no longer try to parse youtube-dl's progress.
Also, updated docs for yt-dlp being default. It did not seem worth
renaming annex.youtube-dl-options and annex.youtube-dl-command.
Note that yt-dlp does not seem to document the fields available in the
progress template. I found them by reading the source and looking at
the templates it uses internally. Also note that the use of "i" (rather
than "s") in progressTemplate makes it display floats rounded to integers;
particularly the estimated total size can be a float. That also does not
seem to be documented but I assume is a python thing?
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Consistency with sync and internal consistency is more important than
consistency with the assistant, which is not itself consistent about
what it does when run in a subdirectory.
Note that with -C, it will still commit staged changes to files outside
the directory. Like sync does. Presumably if the user is manually
staging things, then running this command, they intend to build up a
commit.
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The obvious way to fix this would be to adapt lines to split on null.
However, it's actually nontrivial to rewrite lines. In particular it has a
weird implementation to avoid a space leak. See:
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/4334
Also, while that is a small amount of code, it's covered by a rather
complex copyright and I'd have to include that copyright in git-annex.
So, I opted to filter out the trailing empty string instead.
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assist: New command, which is the same as git-annex sync but with
new files added and content transferred by default.
(Also this fixes another reversion in git-annex sync,
--commit --no-commit, and --message were not enabled, oops.)
See added comment for why git-annex assist does commit staged
changes elsewhere in the work tree, but only adds files under
the cwd.
Note that it does not support --no-commit, --no-push, --no-pull
like sync does. My thinking is, why should it? If you want that
level of control, use git commit, git annex push, git annex pull.
Sync only got those options because pull and push were not split
out.
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When used without --content or --no-content, warn about the upcoming
transition, and suggest using one of the options, or setting
annex.synccontent.
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This option is not specific to sync, so it seemed it should be in either
pull or push as well as sync. Since it does modify the remote, it seems
better to have it in push; the modification of the local repo pulls in
the direction of pull, but not hard enough.
Maybe it would be better to have it in both?
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I anticipate that if sync is transitioned to syncing content by default,
people will want a short option. And in repositories where
annex.synccontent = true, they already would. And pull and push sync
content by default, so a short option is useful with them too.
Mnemonic: -g makes only git data be synced
Also, -a makes only annex data be synced.
Would have preferred -c, which would complement -C, but it
was already taken to set git configs.
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Split out two new commands, git-annex pull and git-annex push. Those plus a
git commit are equivilant to git-annex sync.
In a sense, git-annex sync conflates 3 things, and it would have been
better to have push and pull from the beginning and not sync. Although
note that git-annex sync --content is faster than a pull followed by a
push, because it only has to walk the tree once, look at preferred
content once, etc. So there is some value in git-annex sync in speed, as
well as user convenience.
And it would be hard to split out pull and push from sync, as far as the
implementaton goes. The implementation inside sync was easy, just adjust
SyncOptions so it does the right thing.
Note that the new commands default to syncing content, unless
annex.synccontent is explicitly set to false. I'd like sync to also do
that, but that's a hard transition to make. As a start to that
transition, I added a note to git-annex-sync.mdwn that it may start to
do so in a future version of git-annex. But a real transition would
necessarily involve displaying warnings when sync is used without
--content, and time.
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POSIX character classes allowed in globs was a surprise, but just
happened to fall out of the implementation in a way that seems
to behave correctly.
mdwn2man has to be tweaked to render the example properly.
The line I modified is the one that strips ikiwiki wikilinks out of the
man page.
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Had to convert uninit to do everything that can error out inside a
CommandStart. This was harder than feels nice.
(Also, in passing, converted CommandCheck to use a data type, not a
weird number that it was not clear how it managed to be unique.)
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Seems unlikely to be too useful, but who knows.
Moved the checkSafeConfig call to happen after an action is started, so
it will be captured by --json-error-messages
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Including special --whatelse handling.
Otherwise, it seems unlikely to be too useful, but who knows.
Refactored code to call starting before displaying error messages.
This makes the error messages be captured by --json-error-messages
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Seems unlikely to be very useful, but trivial.
And, this completes the story that git-annex sync does not need json,
since every sub-operation is available in a command that does support json.
(Well, except for committing, but that's not a git-annex command.)
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Both -J and --json needed importfeed to be refactored to use commandAction.
That was difficult, because of the interrelated nature of downloading feeds
and then downloading files from feeds, both of which needed to use
commandAction. And then checking for problems in feeds has to come after
these actions, which may be run as background jobs.
As for --json support, it's most of the way there, but still has some
warts, so I didn't enable jsonOptions yet. The warts include:
- An initial empty json record is displayed by getCache.
- Input is not populated, should be feed url
- feedProblem at end will not be captured by --json-error-messages
(see FIXME)
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Also fix support for operating on multiple pairs of files and keys.
Moved notAnnexed to inside starting, so error message will get into the json.
Cannot include the key in the starting as it's not known yet, so instead
add it to the json later.
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Dunno how useful this will be, since about all that's accessible from
the json is whether it succeeded or failed, and the error messages
which were already on stderr.
Note that, when autoenabling a special remote, it would be possible for
one to stop and prompt or output not using Messages and so not output as
part of the json. I don't think that happens, but I'm not 100% sure
something doesn't manage to break it. Of course, the same could be the
case for commands that transfer objects. Using Annex.Init.autoEnableSpecialRemotes
in --json mode would avoid the problem, but I've chosen to wait until I
know it's needed to use it.
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Generalized AddJSONActionItemField to allow it to add several fields. Not entirely
happy with that, since the names of the fields have to be carefully chosen to
not conflict with other json fields. And fields added that way can't be parsed
back in FromJSON, except for the "fields" field that is special cased for metadata.
Still, I couldn't see another way to do it.
Also, omit file:null from the json output. Which does affect other commands,
eg git-annex whereis --all --json. Hopefully that won't break something that expects
a null file. If it did, that could be reverted, but it would be ugly to have
file:null in the unused --json
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For expire, the normal output is unchanged, but the --json output includes the uuid
in machine parseable form. Which could be very useful for this somewhat obscure
command. That needed ActionItemUUID to be implemented, which seemed like a lot
of work, but then ---
I had been going to skip implementing them for trust, untrust, dead, semitrust,
and describe, but putting the uuid in the json is useful information, it tells
what uuid git-annex picked given the input. It was not hard to support
these once ActionItemUUID was implemented.
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This also changes addunused to display the names of the files that it adds.
That seems like a general usability improvement, and not displaying the input
number does not seem likely to be a problem to a user, since the filename
is based on the key. Displaying the filename was necessary to get it and the key
included in the json.
dropunused does not include the key in the json. It would be possible to
add, but would need more changes. And I doubt that dropunused --json
would be used in a situation where a program cared which keys were
dropped. Note that drop --unused does have the key in its json, so such
a program could just use it. Or could just dropkey --batch with the
specific keys it wants to drop if it cares about specific keys.
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Also in passing the --all display was fixed up to not quote keys like filenames.
Note that the check added to compareChanges was needed to avoid logging when
nothing changed.
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The json does not include an url field, but it does have an input field that is
"file url" when using --batch and ["file", "url"] when using the command line.
I chose not to change that because it would complicate batchInput.
An url field could be added if it turns out to be useful.
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This makes annexFileMode be just an application of setAnnexPerm',
which avoids having 2 functions that do different versions of the same
thing.
Fixes some buggy behavior for some combinations of core.sharedRepository
and umask.
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This spams the user with a lot of messages, but it seems like busywork to
avoid that and only warn once, since this warning will go away when it gets
implemented.
Also fix parsing of the octal value.
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That's too much quoting, the user expects the filename to be copy and
pasteable. It would be ok to slash-escape space ('\ ')
which is what gnu find does, but it doesn't seem necessary either.
${escaped_file} has always quoted spaces though, so keep on doing it
there.
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When a nonexistant file is passed to a command and --json-error-messages
is enabled, output a JSON object indicating the problem.
(But git ls-files --error-unmatch still displays errors about such files in
some situations.)
I don't like the duplication of the name of the command introduced by this,
but I can't see a great way around it. One way would be to pass the Command
instead.
When json is not enabled, the stderr is unchanged. This is necessary
because some commands like find have custom output. So dislaying
"find foo not found" would be wrong. So had to complicate things with
toplevelFileProblem having different output with and without json.
When not using --json-error-messages but still using --json, it displays
the error to stderr, but does display a json object without the error. It
does have an errorid though. Unsure how useful that behavior is.
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This reverts commit a325524454.
Turns out this was predicated on an incorrect belief that json output
didn't already sometimes lack the "key" field. Since json output already
can when `giveup` was used, it seems unncessary to add a whole new
option for this.
Added a --json-exceptions option, which makes some exceptions be output in json.
The distinction is that --json-error-messages is for messages relating
to a particular ActionItem, while --json-exceptions is for messages that
are not, eg ones for a file that does not exist.
It's unfortunate that we need two switches with such a fine distinction
between them, but I'm worried about maintaining backwards compatability
in the json output, to avoid breaking anything that parses it, and this was
the way to make sure I didn't.
toplevelWarning is generally used for the latter kind of message. And
the other calls to toplevelWarning could be converted to showException. The
only possible gotcha is that if toplevelWarning is ever called after
starting acting on a file, it will add to the --json-error-messages of the
json displayed for that file and converting to showException would be a
behavior change. That seems unlikely, but I didn't convery everything to
avoid needing to satisfy myself it was not a concern.
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