While this word may be less familiar to some users, it avoids the
connotation that version 2 is better than version 1, which is wrong
when the two variants were conflicting.
Note that, since this always pushes branch synced/master to the remote, it
assumes that master has already gotten all the commits that are on the
remote merged in. Otherwise, fast-forward prevention may prevent the push.
That's probably ok, because the next stage is to automatically detect
incoming pushes and merge.
This has two benefits.
1. When a lot of refs are going to be received, get them via lower cost
connection when possible.
2. Allows ctrl-c of sync after the cheaper remotes have been pulled from
(or pushed to).
Now changes are staged into the branch's index, but not committed,
which avoids growing a large journal. And sync and merge always
explicitly commit, ensuring that even when they do nothing else,
they commit the staged changes.
Added a flag file to indicate that the branch's journal contains
uncommitted changes. (Could use git ls-files, but don't want to run
that every time.)
In the future, this ability to have uncommitted changes staged in the
journal might be used on remotes after a series of oneshot commands.
With --fast, unavailable local remotes are filtered out of the fast set.
This way, if there are local remotes, --fast always acts only on them,
and if none are mounted, acts on nothing. This consistency is better
than --fast acting on different remotes depending on what's mounted.
Some changes to make automated syncing nicer. Merge from both the remote's
$branch and its synced/$branch; either could have new changes. Create
synced/$branch on the remote when pushing.
This optimises away the need to run anything in some common cases.
It's particularly useful on push; no need to push if the tracking branch
we just pulled is the same as the branch we're going to push.
The other uses of it can all be simplified using Git.Ref.base,
Git.Ref.under, and show.
In some cases, describe was being used to shorten the branch name
unnecessarily, and I instead pass the fully qualified name to git.
git-annex normally only runs the branch update once per run, for speed, but
since this fetches new remote git-annex tracking branches, they need to be
merged in after that fetch. An earlier call to Remote.byName was causing
the update to run before the fetch sometimes, but it could have been
anything. Just force the update to happen in the right place.
