This was needed when supporting old git-annex-shell that do not support
p2pstdio yet, in order to cleanly fall back to the old interface without
error messages being displayed. That is no longer supported, so simplify
to not intercept error messages.
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Started in 2017 in commit 3fe9d99f24.
Starting tomorrow, all versions of git-annex since then will provide
an appid, and so it will no longer be necessary to check the date.
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Capstone to this feature. Any transitions that have been performed on an
unmerged remote ref but not on the local git-annex branch, or vice-versa
have to be applied on the fly when reading files.
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It would display incomplete information, which would differ from the
information displayed with write access. So refuse to display anything.
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It would be difficult to make Annex.Branch.files query the unmerged
git-annex branches. Might be possible, similar to what was discussed in
7f6b2ca49c but again I decided to make it
not do anything in that situation to start with before adding such a
complicated thing.
git-annex info uses it when getting info about a repostory. The choices
were to make that fail with an error, or display the info it can, and
change the output slightly for the bits of info it cannot access. While
that is a behavior change, and I want to avoid any behavior changes due
to unmerged git-annex branches in a read-only repo, displaying a message
that is not a number seems unlikely to break anything that was consuming
a number, any worse than throwing an exception would. Probably.
Also git-annex unused --from origin is made to throw an error, but
it would fail later anyway when trying to write to the unused log files.
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This makes --all error out in that situation. Which is better than
ignoring information from the branches.
To really handle the branches right, overBranchFileContents would need
to both query all the branches and union merge file contents
(or perhaps not provide any file content), as well as diffing between
branches to find files that are only present in the unmerged branches.
And also, it would need to handle transitions..
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The way precaching works, it can't merge in information from those
branches efficiently, so just disable it and fall back to
Annex.Branch.get in order to get the correct information.
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Improved support for using git-annex in a read-only repository, git-annex
branch information from remotes that cannot be merged into the git-annex
branch will now not crash it, but will be merged in memory.
To avoid this making git-annex behave one way in a read-only repository,
and another way when it can write, it's important that Annex.Branch.get
return the same thing (modulo log file compaction) in both cases.
This manages that mostly. There are some exceptions:
- When there is a transition in one of the remote git-annex branches
that has not yet been applied to the local or other git-annex branches.
Transitions are not handled.
- `git-annex log` runs git log on the git-annex branch, and so
it will not be able to show information coming from the other, not yet
merged branches.
- Annex.Branch.files only looks at files in the git-annex branch and not
unmerged branches. This affects git-annex info output.
- Annex.Branch.hs.overBranchFileContents ditto. Affects --all and
also importfeed (but importfeed cannot work in a read-only repo
anyway).
- CmdLine.Seek.seekFilteredKeys when precaching location logs.
Note use of Annex.Branch.fullname
- Database.ContentIdentifier.needsUpdateFromLog and updateFromLog
These warts make this not suitable to be merged yet.
This readonly code path is more expensive, since it has to query several
branches. The value does get cached, but still large queries will be
slower in a read-only repository when there are unmerged git-annex
branches.
When annex.merge-annex-branches=false, updateTo skips doing anything,
and so the read-only repository code does not get triggered. So a user who
is bothered by the extra work can set that.
Other writes to the repository can still result in permissions errors.
This includes the initial creation of the git-annex branch, and of course
any writes to the git-annex branch.
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sync: Better error message when unable to export to a remote because
remote.name.annex-tracking-branch is configured to a ref that does not
exist.
It does not suggest how to fix the problem because there are several
possible solutions: Change the git config to point to something that does
exist, git add some files, or put files on the special remote that will be
imported and so populate the ref.
I considered just silently not doing anything, which is what it does
when annex-tracking-branch = master and nothing has been committed to
master yet. But it seems better to be explicit about it, since this is a
fairly confusing situation to find yourself in.
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