--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
* registerurl, unregisterurl: Improved output when reading from stdin
to be more like other batch commands.
* registerurl, unregisterurl: Added --json and --json-error-messages options.
Note that this did change the --batch output in a way that could possibly
break something that expected the old output to never change. I think it's
acceptable to break that because there has never been a guarantee of
unchanging output format except with --batch for most commands. The old
output was just really weird too!
One possible wart is that "git-annex registerurl" with no options now
seems to just hang, since it's waiting for stdin input. Before, it said
"registerurl (stdin)" which was clearer about what's happenening. But this
is a deprecated mode anyway, --batch makes clear what's happening. If
anything, this problem would be a reason to eventually remove the support
for reading from stdin w/o --batch.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
New --batch-keys option added to these commands: get, drop, move, copy, whereis
git-annex-matching-options had to be reworded since some of its options
can be used to match on keys, not only files.
Sponsored-by: Luke Shumaker on Patreon
unregisterurl: Fix a bug that caused an url to not be unregistered when it
is claimed by a special remote other than the web.
See commit f175d4cc90 for rationalle.
Implemented by generalizing registerurl. Without the implicit batch mode
of registerurl since that is only a backwards compatability thing
(see commit 1d1054faa6).
