--backend is no longer a global option, and is only accepted by commands
that actually need it.
Three commands that used to support backend but don't any longer are
watch, webapp, and assistant. It would be possible to make them support it,
but I doubt anyone used the option with these. And in the case of webapp
and assistant, the option was handled inconsistently, only taking affect
when the command is run with an existing git-annex repo, not when it
creates a new one.
Also, renamed GlobalOption etc to AnnexOption. Because there are many
options of this type that are not actually global (any more) and get
added to commands that need them.
Sponsored-by: Kevin Mueller on Patreon
Dropping an object with drop --unused or dropunused will mark it as
dead, preventing fsck --all from complaining about it after it's been
dropped from all repositories.
If another repository still has a copy, it won't be treated as dead
until it's also dropped from there.
The drop has to use --unused, can't be --key or something else, because
this indicates that the user has recently ran git-annex unused. If it
checked the unused log on every drop, bad things would happen when the
unused log was out of date, eg a file used to be unused but then got
re-added. Marking such a file as dead could be confusing. When the user
uses --unused/dropunused, they must consider the unused information to be
up-to-date.
The particular workflow this enables is:
git annex add foo
git annex unannex foo
git annex unused
git annex drop --unused / dropunused
git annex fsck --all # no warnings
The docs for git-annex unannex say to use git-annex unused and dropunused,
so the user should be pointed in this direction when they want to undo an
accidental add.
Sponsored-by: Brock Spratlen on Patreon
Eg, before with a .gitattributes like:
*.2 annex.numcopies=2
*.1 annex.numcopies=1
And foo.1 and foo.2 having the same content and key, git-annex drop foo.1 foo.2
would succeed, leaving just 1 copy, despite foo.2 needing 2 copies.
It dropped foo.1 first and then skipped foo.2 since its content was gone.
Now that the keys database includes locked files, this longstanding wart
can be fixed.
Sponsored-by: Noam Kremen on Patreon
When two files have the same content, and a required content expression
matches one but not the other, dropping the latter file will fail as it
would also remove the content of the required file.
This will slow down drop (w/o --auto), dropunused, mirror, and move, by one
keys db lookup per file. But I did include an optimisation to avoid a
double db lookup in the drop --auto / sync --content case. I suspect that
dropunused could also use PreferredContentChecked True, but haven't
entirely thought it through and it's rarely used with enough files for the
optimisation to matter.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
This is conceptually very simple, just making a 1 that was hard coded be
exposed as a config option. The hard part was plumbing all that, and
dealing with complexities like reading it from git attributes at the
same time that numcopies is read.
Behavior change: When numcopies is set to 0, git-annex used to drop
content without requiring any copies. Now to get that (highly unsafe)
behavior, mincopies also needs to be set to 0. It seemed better to
remove that edge case, than complicate mincopies by ignoring it when
numcopies is 0.
This commit was sponsored by Denis Dzyubenko on Patreon.
No behavior changes (hopefully), just adding SeekInput and plumbing it
through to the JSON display code for later use.
Over the course of 2 grueling days.
withFilesNotInGit reimplemented in terms of seekHelper
should be the only possible behavior change. It seems to test as
behaving the same.
Note that seekHelper dummies up the SeekInput in the case where
segmentPaths' gives up on sorting the expanded paths because there are
too many input paths. When SeekInput later gets exposed as a json field,
that will result in it being a little bit wrong in the case where
100 or more paths are passed to a git-annex command. I think this is a
subtle enough problem to not matter. If it does turn out to be a
problem, fixing it would require splitting up the input
parameters into groups of < 100, which would make git ls-files run
perhaps more than is necessary. May want to revisit this, because that
fix seems fairly low-impact.
This removes all calls to inAnnex, except for some involving --batch.
It may be that the batch code could get a similar speedup, but I don't
know if people habitually pass a huge number of files through --batch
that git-annex does not need to do anything to process, so I skipped it
for now.
A few calls to ifAnnexed remain, and might be worth doing more to
convert. In particular, Command.Sync has one that would probably speed
it up by a good amount.
(also removed some dead code from Command.Lock)
Added annex.skipunknown git config, that can be set to false to change the
behavior of commands like `git annex get foo*`, to not skip over files/dirs
that are not checked into git and are explicitly listed in the command
line.
Significant complexity was needed to handle git-annex add, which uses some
git ls-files calls, but needs to not use --error-unmatch because of course
the files are not known to git.
annex.skipunknown is planned to change to default to false in a
git-annex release in early 2022. There's a todo for that.
move --to, copy --to, mirror --to: When concurrency is enabled, run cleanup
actions in separate job pool from uploads.
transferStages was confusingly named, it's only useful when doing downloads
as then the verify actions can be run concurrently with other downloads.
For commands that upload, there will be more concurrency from running
cleanup actions in a separate job pool.
As for sync, I left it using downloadStages although that's not optimal
for the part of a sync that uploads. Perhaps it should use the union of
both?
This means that Command.Move and Command.Get don't need to
manually set the stage, and is a lot cleaner conceptually.
Also, this makes Command.Sync.syncFile use the worker pool better.
In the scenario where it first downloads content and then uploads it to
some other remotes, it will start in TransferStage, then enter VerifyStage
and then go back to TransferStage for each transfer to the remotes.
Before, it entered CleanupStage after the download, and stayed in it for
the upload, so too many transfer jobs could run at the same time.
Note that, in Remote.Git, it uses runTransfer and also verifyKeyContent
inside onLocal. That has a Annex state for the remote, with no worker pool.
So the resulting calls to enteringStage won't block in there.
While Remote.Git.copyToRemote does do checksum verification, I
realized that should not use a verification slot in the WorkerPool
to do it. Because, it's reading back from eg, a removable disk to checksum.
That will contend with other writes to that disk. It's best to treat
that checksum verification as just part of the transer. So, removed the todo
item about that, as there's nothing needing to be done.
Rather than limiting it to PerformStage and CleanupStage, this opens it
up so any number of stages can be added as needed by commands.
Each concurrent command has a set of stages that it uses, and only
transitions between those can block waiting for a free slot in the
worker pool. Calling enteringStage for some other stage does not block,
and has very little overhead.
Note that while before the Annex state was duplicated on the first call
to commandAction, this now happens earlier, in startConcurrency.
That means that seek stage actions should that use startConcurrency
and then modify Annex state won't modify the state of worker threads
they then start. I audited all of them, and only Command.Seek
did so; prepMerge changes the working directory and so has to come
before startConcurrency.
Also, the remote list is built before duplicating the state, which means
that it gets built earlier now than it used to. This would only have an
effect of making commands that end up not needing to perform any actions
unncessary build the remote list (only when they're run with concurrency
enable), but that's a minor overhead compared to commands seeking
through the work tree and determining they don't need to do anything.
The goal is to be able to run CommandStart in the main thread when -J is
used, rather than unncessarily passing it off to a worker thread, which
incurs overhead that is signficant when the CommandStart is going to
quickly decide to stop.
To do that, the message it displays needs to be displayed in the worker
thread, after the CommandStart has run.
Also, the change will mean that CommandStart will no longer necessarily
run with the same Annex state as CommandPerform. While its docs already
said it should avoid modifying Annex state, I audited all the
CommandStart code as part of the conversion. (Note that CommandSeek
already sometimes runs with a different Annex state, and that has not been
a source of any problems, so I am not too worried that this change will
lead to breakage going forward.)
The only modification of Annex state I found was it calling
allowMessages in some Commands that default to noMessages. Dealt with
that by adding a startCustomOutput and a startingUsualMessages.
This lets a command start with noMessages and then select the output it
wants for each CommandStart.
One bit of breakage: onlyActionOn has been removed from commands that used it.
The plan is that, since a StartMessage contains an ActionItem,
when a Key can be extracted from that, the parallel job runner can
run onlyActionOn' automatically. Then commands won't need to worry about
this detail. Future work.
Otherwise, this was a fairly straightforward process of making each
CommandStart compile again. Hopefully other behavior changes were mostly
avoided.
In a few cases, a command had a CommandStart that called a CommandPerform
that then called showStart multiple times. I have collapsed those
down to a single start action. The main command to perhaps suffer from it
is Command.Direct, which used to show a start for each file, and no
longer does.
Another minor behavior change is that some commands used showStart
before, but had an associated file and a Key available, so were changed
to ShowStart with an ActionItemAssociatedFile. That will not change the
normal output or behavior, but --json output will now include the key.
This should not break it for anyone using a real json parser.
This does not change the overall license of the git-annex program, which
was already AGPL due to a number of sources files being AGPL already.
Legally speaking, I'm adding a new license under which these files are
now available; I already released their current contents under the GPL
license. Now they're dual licensed GPL and AGPL. However, I intend
for all my future changes to these files to only be released under the
AGPL license, and I won't be tracking the dual licensing status, so I'm
simply changing the license statement to say it's AGPL.
(In some cases, others wrote parts of the code of a file and released it
under the GPL; but in all cases I have contributed a significant portion
of the code in each file and it's that code that is getting the AGPL
license; the GPL license of other contributors allows combining with
AGPL code.)
This is groundwork for nested seek loops, eg seeking over all files and
then performing commandActions on a list of remotes, which can be done
concurrently.
This commit was sponsored by Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on Patreon.
move: Added --safe option, which makes move honor numcopies settings.
Also --unsafe enables the default behavior, anticipating that the
default may one day change.
This commit was sponsored by Ethan Aubin.
Added --json-error-messages option, which includes error messages in the
json output, rather than outputting them to stderr.
The actual rediretion of errors is not implemented yet, this is only
the docs and option plumbing.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
This avoids all the complication about redundant work discussed in
the previous try at fixing this. At the expense of needing each command
that could have the problem to be patched to simply wrap the action in
onlyActionOn once the key is known. But there do not seem to be many
such commands.
onlyActionOn' should not be used with a CommandStart (or CommandPerform),
although the types do allow it. onlyActionOn handles running the whole
CommandStart chain. I couldn't immediately see a way to avoid mistken
use of onlyActionOn'.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
git annex add, git annex lock etc make multiple seek passes,
and each seek pass checked that files existed. That was unncessary
redundant work.
Fixed by adding a new WorkTreeItem type, make seek actions use it,
and check that the files exist when constructing it.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
Note that get --from foo --failed will get things that a previous get --from bar
tried and failed to get, etc. I considered making --failed only retry
transfers from the same remote, but it was easier, and seems more useful,
to not have the same remote requirement.
Noisy due to some refactoring into Types/
Show branch:file that is being operated on.
I had to make ActionItem a type and not a type class because
withKeyOptions' passed two different types of values when using the type
class, and I could not get the type checker to accept that.
Commands that want to use it have to run their seek action inside
allowConcurrentOutput. Which seems reasonable; perhaps some future command
will want to support the -J flag but not use regions.
The region state moved from Annex to MessageState. This makes sense
organizationally, and note that some uses of onLocal use a different Annex
state, but pass the MessageState into it, which is what is needed.
There should be no behavior changes in this commit, it just adds a more
expressive data type and adjusts code that had been passing around a [UUID]
or sometimes a Maybe Remote to instead use [VerifiedCopy].
Although, since some functions were taking two different [UUID] lists,
there's some potential for me to have gotten it horribly wrong.
This is a work in progress. It compiles and is able to do basic command
dispatch, including git autocorrection, while using optparse-applicative
for the core commandline parsing.
* Many commands are temporarily disabled before conversion.
* Options are not wired in yet.
* cmdnorepo actions don't work yet.
Also, removed the [Command] list, which was only used in one place.
This works, and seems fairly robust. Clean get of 20 files at -J3. At -J10,
there are some messages about ssh multiplexing, probably due to a race
spinning up the ssh connection cacher. But, it manages to get all the files
ok regardless.
The progress bars are a scrambled mess though, due to bugs in
ascii-progress, which I've already filed. Particularly this one:
https://github.com/yamadapc/haskell-ascii-progress/issues/8
Only fsck and reinject and the test suite used the Backend, and they can
look it up as needed from the Key. This simplifies the code and also speeds
it up.
There is a small behavior change here. Before, all commands would warn when
acting on an annexed file with an unknown backend. Now, only fsck and
reinject show that warning.
