The only price paid is one additional MVar read per write to the journal.
Presumably writing a journal file dominiates over a MVar read time by
several orders of magnitude.
--batch does not get the speedup because then it needs to notice when
another process has made a change. Also made the assistant and other damon
modes bypass the optimisation, which would not help them anyway.
* Added sync --only-annex, which syncs the git-annex branch and annexed
content but leaves managing the other git branches up to you.
* Added annex.synconlyannex git config setting, which can also be set with
git-annex config to configure sync in all clones of the repo.
Use case is then the user has their own git workflow, and wants to use
git-annex without disrupting that, so they sync --only-annex to get the
git-annex stuff in sync in addition to their usual git workflow.
When annex.synconlyannex is set, --not-only-annex can be used to override
it.
It's not entirely clear what --only-annex --commit or --only-annex
--push should do, and I left that combination not documented because I
don't know if I might want to change the current behavior, which is that
such options do not override the --only-annex. My gut feeling is that
there is no good reasons to use such combinations; if you want to use
your own git workflow, you'll be doing your own committing and pulling
and pushing.
A subtle question is, how should import/export special remotes be handled?
Importing updates their remote tracking branch and merges it into master.
If --only-annex prevented that git branch stuff, then it would prevent
exporting to the special remote, in the case where it has changes that
were not imported yet, because there would be a unresolved conflict.
I decided that it's best to treat the fact that there's a remote tracking
branch for import/export as an implementation detail in this case. The more
important thing is that an import/export special remote is entirely annexed
content, and so it makes a lot of sense that --only-annex will still sync
with it.
The use case is basically the user having forgotten, so --help would be
best, but it would be quite hard to include this in --help, since it may
even have to spin up an external special remote program.
I also considered --umm but typoed it the first time I tried it as
--uum, and while memorable, it's too cutesy. --whatelse is good because
it explicitly asks, what other params, besides the ones I've given?
This is a first step toward that goal, using the ProposedAccepted type
in RemoteConfig lets initremote/enableremote reject bad parameters that
were passed in a remote's configuration, while avoiding enableremote
rejecting bad parameters that have already been stored in remote.log
This does not eliminate every place where a remote config is parsed and a
default value is used if the parse false. But, I did fix several
things that expected foo=yes/no and so confusingly accepted foo=true but
treated it like foo=no. There are still some fields that are parsed with
yesNo but not not checked when initializing a remote, and there are other
fields that are parsed in other ways and not checked when initializing a
remote.
This also lays groundwork for rejecting unknown/typoed config keys.
ifAnnexed in a bare repo passes to git cat-file :./filename , which it
refuses to do since the repo is bare.
Note that, reinject somefile someannexedfile in a bare repo silently does
nothing, because someannexedfile is never actually an annexed worktree
file, because the repo is bare.
options make it easier to override annex.largefiles configuration
(and potentially safer as it avoids bugs like the smudge bug fixed
in the last release)
Deleted some old comments that were posted to the man page discussing such
options.
Updated docs that used -c annex.largefiles to use the options.
Note that addSmallOverridden was needed to avoid the clean filter running
on the file. It would be possible to make addFile also update the index
directly, rather than going via git add. However, it was not necessary,
and I want to avoid breaking on some edge case, particularly if the code in
addSmallOverridden has some oversight.
Also, when annex.addunlocked is set and annex.largefiles does not match a file,
git annex add --force-large works, but git status will then show the file
as added, with a unstaged modification. The unstaged modification adds the
file to git. This is identical behavior to using -c annex.largefiles=nothing
when annex.addunlocked is set. This does not prevent committing what was
intended to be added. I have not gotten to the bottom of why git thinks
the file is modified and runs it through the clean filter in this case.
smudge: When annex.largefiles=anything, files that were already stored in
git, and have not been modified could sometimes be converted to being
stored in the annex. Changes in 7.20191024 made this more of a problem.
This case is now detected and prevented.
The git add behavior changes could be avoided if it turns out to be
really annoying, but then it would need to behave the old way when
annex.dotfiles=false and the new way when annex.dotfiles=true. I'd
rather not have the config option result in such divergent behavior as
`git annex add .` skipping a dotfile (old) vs adding to annex (new).
Note that the assistant always adds dotfiles to the annex.
This is surprising, but not new behavior. Might be worth making it also
honor annex.dotfiles, but I wonder if perhaps some user somewhere uses
it and keeps large files in a directory that happens to begin with a
dot. Since dotfiles and dotdirs are a unix culture thing, and the
assistant users may not be part of that culture, it seems best to keep
its current behavior for now.
* annex.addunlocked can be set to an expression with the same format used by
annex.largefiles, in case you want to default to unlocking some files but
not others.
* annex.addunlocked can be configured by git-annex config.
Added a git-annex-matching-expression man page, broken out from
tips/largefiles.
A tricky consequence of this is that git-annex add --relaxed
honors annex.addunlocked, but an expression might want to know the size
or content of an url, which it's not going to download. I decided it was
better not to fail, and just dummy up some plausible data in that case.
Performance impact should be negligible. The global config is already
loaded for annex.largefiles. The expression only has to be parsed once,
and in the simple true/false case, it should not do any additional work
matching it.
Remove dup definitions and just use the RawFilePath one. </> etc are
enough faster that it's probably faster than building a String directly,
although I have not benchmarked.
My ByteString rewrite oversimplified it, resulting in any _ in a journal
file turning into a / in the git-annex branch, which was often the wrong
filename, or sometimes (//) an invalid filename that git
refused to add.
git-annex find is now RawFilePath end to end, no string conversions.
So is git-annex get when it does not need to get anything.
So this is a major milestone on optimisation.
Benchmarks indicate around 30% speedup in both commands.
Probably many other performance improvements. All or nearly all places
where a file is statted use RawFilePath now.
Since the sqlite branch uses blobs extensively, there are some
performance benefits, ByteStrings now get stored and retrieved w/o
conversion in some cases like in Database.Export.
The parser and looking up config keys in the map should both be faster
due to using ByteString.
I had hoped this would speed up startup time, but any improvement to
that was too small to measure. Seems worth keeping though.
Note that the parser breaks up the ByteString, but a config map ends up
pointing to the config as read, which is retained in memory until every
value from it is no longer used. This can change memory usage
patterns marginally, but won't affect git-annex.
While L.toStrict copies, profiling showed it was only around 0.3% of
git-annex find runtime. Does not seem worth optimising that, which would
probably involve either a major refactoring, or a use of
UnsafeInterleaveIO.
Also, it seems to me that the latter would need to read chunks, and
preappend the leftover part to the next chunk. But a strict ByteString
append itself is a copy, so I'm not convinced that would be faster than
L.toStrict.
* git-lfs: The url provided to initremote/enableremote will now be
stored in the git-annex branch, allowing enableremote to be used without
an url. initremote --sameas can be used to add additional urls.
* git-lfs: When there's a git remote with an url that's known to be
used for git-lfs, automatically enable the special remote.
Delete the old export dbs on upgrade.
Testing this an exporting to a directory with both exporttree=yes and
importtree=yes, it refused to let an interrupted export proceed after
upgrade, with "unsafe to overwrite file". An import resolved the
problem.
It will be populated automatically by the next command that needs data
from it, the same way it gets populated in a fresh clone. That may be a
little expensive, but it's a one time cost, and no slower than in a
fresh clone.
The old db is cleaned up when a new incremental fsck is started.
The incremental fsck won't pick up where the old one left off, but I
consider this a minor enough thing that it can just be documented and
won't be a problem.
The test suite found a bug; select_ can fail now because a uniqueness
constrain has been added.
Now the test suite passes.
Also, I'm satisfied the changed PersistField instances work.
Looking over what changed, and what I've already tested, Key, FilePath,
and InodeCache are known working; ContentIdentifier is trivial
ByteString to blob; and SSha is trivial String to varchar. Both are
tested by the test suite. I've also tested the new FileSize and
EpochTime instances already, and they work.
Bearing in mind that these indexes are really uniqueness constraints
that just happen to also make sqlite generate indexes.
In Database.ContentIndentifier, the ContentIndentifiersKeyRemoteCidIndex
is fine as a uniqueness constraint because it contains all rows from the
table. The ContentIndentifiersCidRemoteIndex is also ok because there
can only be one key for a given (cid, uuid) combination.
In Database.Export, the new ExportTreeFileKeyIndex is the same pair as
the old ExportTreeKeyFileIndex (previously ExportTreeIndex). And
in Database.Keys.SQL, the new InodeCacheKeyIndex is the same pair as the
old KeyInodeCacheIndex.
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.
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.
This is used by a special remote with sameas-uuid=
The remote's uuid is the sameas-uuid, but it needs to get
its RemoteConfig from the annex-config-uuid.
