For NotifyChanges and also for the fallthrough case where
git-annex-shell passes a command off to git-shell, proxying is currently
ignored. So every remote that is accessed via a proxy will be treated as
the same git repository.
Every other command listed in cmdsMap will need to check if
Annex.proxyremote is set, and if so handle the proxying appropriately.
Probably only P2PStdio will need to support proxying. For now,
everything else refuses to work when proxying.
The part of that I don't like is that there's the possibility a command
later gets added to the list that doesn't check proxying.
When proxying is not enabled, it's important that git-annex-shell not
leak information that it would not have exposed before. Such as the
names or uuids of remotes.
I decided that, in the case where a repository used to have proxying
enabled, but no longer supports any proxies, it's ok to give the user a
clear error message indicating that proxying is not configured, rather
than a confusing uuid mismatch message.
Similarly, if a repository has proxying enabled, but not for the
requested repository, give a clear error message.
A tricky thing here is how to handle the case where there is more than
one remote, with proxying enabled, with the specified uuid. One way to
handle that would be to plumb the proxyRemoteName all the way through
from the remote git-annex to git-annex-shell, eg as a field, and use
only a remote with the same name. That would be very intrusive though.
Instead, I decided to let the proxy pick which remote it uses to access
a given Remote. And so it picks the least expensive one.
The client after all doesn't necessarily know any details about the
proxy's configuration. This does mean though, that if the least
expensive remote is not accessible, but another remote would have
worked, an access via the proxy will fail.
* Removed support for accessing git remotes that use versions of
git-annex older than 6.20180312.
* git-annex-shell: Removed several commands that were only needed to
support git-annex versions older than 6.20180312.
(lockcontent, recvkey, sendkey, transferinfo, commit)
The P2P protocol was added in that version, and used ever since, so
this code was only needed for interop with older versions.
"git-annex-shell commit" is used by newer git-annex versions, though
unnecessarily so, because the p2pstdio command makes a single commit at
shutdown. Luckily, it was run with stderr and stdout sent to /dev/null,
and non-zero exit status or other exceptions are caught and ignored. So,
that was able to be removed from git-annex-shell too.
git-annex-shell inannex, recvkey, sendkey, and dropkey are still used by
gcrypt special remotes accessed over ssh, so those had to be kept.
It would probably be possible to convert that to using the P2P protocol,
but it would be another multi-year transition.
Some git-annex-shell fields were able to be removed. I hoped to remove
all of them, and the very concept of them, but unfortunately autoinit
is used by git-annex sync, and gcrypt uses remoteuuid.
The main win here is really in Remote.Git, removing piles of hairy fallback
code.
Sponsored-by: Luke Shumaker
Sometimes users would get confused because an option they were looking
for was not mentioned on a subcommand's man page, and they had not
noticed that the main git-annex man page had a list of common options.
This change lets each subcommand mention the common options, similarly
to how the matching options are handled.
This commit was sponsored by Svenne Krap on Patreon.
Makes it allow writes, but not deletion of annexed content. Note that
securing pushes to the git repository is left up to the user.
This commit was sponsored by Jack Hill on Patreon.
Not yet used for everything else, but this is enough to
verify that it works, and do some benchmarking.
Some bugfixes included, which got it working. Also fallback to old
actions has been verified to work correctly.
Benchmarked dropping one thousand files from a ssh remote on localhost.
Using the old git-annex 40.867 seconds.
With the P2P protocol 9.905 seconds!
This commit was sponsored by Jochen Bartl on Patreon.
Not yet used by git-annex, but this will allow faster transfers etc than
using individual ssh connections and rsync.
Not called git-annex-shell p2p, because git-annex p2p does something
else and I don't want two subcommands with the same name between the two
for sanity reasons.
This commit was sponsored by Øyvind Andersen Holm.
The direct flag is also set when sending unlocked content, to support old
versions of git-annex-shell. At some point, the direct flag will be
removed, and only the unlocked flag will be used.
Now it suffices to run git remote add, followed by git-annex sync. Now the
remote is automatically initialized for use by git-annex, where before the
git-annex branch had to manually be pushed before using git-annex sync.
Note that this involved changes to git-annex-shell, so if the remote is
using an old version, the manual push is still needed.
Implementation required git-annex-shell be changed, so configlist can
autoinit a repository even when no git-annex branch has been pushed yet.
Unfortunate because we'll have to wait for it to get deployed to servers
before being able to rely on this change in the documentation.
Did consider making git-annex sync push the git-annex branch to repos that
didn't have a uuid, but this seemed difficult to do without complicating it
in messy ways.
It would be cleaner to split a command out from configlist to handle
the initialization. But this is difficult without sacrificing backwards
compatability, for users of old git-annex versions which would not use the
new command.
This will be used by the remote-daemon to quickly tell when changes have
been pushed from some other repository into a ssh remote.
Adjusted the remote-daemon protocol to communicate changed shas, rather
than git branch refs. This way, it can easily check if a sha is new.
This commit was sponsored by Carlos Trijueque Albarran.
Eventually, git-annex might try running this after making changes to
a remote. I have not yet thought of a good way for it to tell which
remotes it needs to run it on though. It can't just do it when
shutting down a cached ssh connection, because ssh connection caching
is optional, and that would not handle local remotes not accessed over ssh
either.
