This is the capstone in making the webapp remember ssh remotes
so they can be easily enabled in other clones of the repository.
Currently, the user will need to enter a password to enable the ssh remote,
but everything else is filled in automatically.
This commit was sponsored by Peter Lloyd.
The repository must have been added using initremote.
Turned out to be much much simpler than expected, because I was able to
reuse the existing code for enabling rsync and gcrypt remotes, which
was already sufficiently general that it will also work for ssh remotes.
Total win!
This commit was sponsored by an unknown bitcoin contributor.
Broken by 958312885f, in November!
I missed this because there's no strong type checking across the AJAX call. :(
Need to switch to Fay to avoid such bugs..
Avoid any possibilty of prompting in ssh setup in webapp.
Prticularly on Windows this was a problem, it seemed to enter an infinite
loop. I think that ssh can sometimes use SSH_ASKPASS for y/n prompting,
when no controlling TTY is available, and since git-annex always answers
back with the host's password, not y/n, it looped.
This commit was sponsored by Simon Michael.
When setting up a remote on a ssh server, prompt for a password inside the
webapp, rather than relying on ssh's own password prompting in the terminal
the webapp was started from, or ssh-askpass.
Avoids double prompting for the ssh password (and triple-prompting on
windows for rsync.net), since the entered password is cached for 10 minutes
and this cached password is reused when setting up the repository, after
the initial probe.
When the user has an existing ssh key set up, they can choose to use it,
rather than entering a password. The webapp used to probe for this case
automatically, so this is a little harder, but it's an advanced user thing.
Note that this commit is known to break enabling existing rsync
repositories. It hs not been tested with gcrypt repositories. It's not been
successfully tested yet on Windows.
This commit was sponsored by Ralph Mayer.
This should fix the android build. The EvilSplicer cannot fix up ghc's
misformatting of a case expression with a construstor with a lot of
parameters, which spans multiple lines.
* webapp: Support using git-annex on a remote server, which was installed
from the standalone tarball or OSX app, and so does not have
git-annex in PATH (and may also not have git or rsync in PATH).
* standalone tarball, OSX app: Install a ~/.ssh/git-annex-wrapper, which
can be used to run git-annex, git, rsync, etc.
Trying to start in such a repo will, obviously, fail.
Note that assistant --autostart will try to start in such a repo, and fail,
but does start successfully in the other autostart repos.
The ctrl-c hack used before didn't actually seem to work.
No haskell libraries expose TerminateProcess. I tried just calling it via
FFI, but got segfaults, probably to do with the wacky process handle not
being managed correctly. Moving it all into one C function worked.
This was hell. The EvilLinker hack was just final icing on the cake.
We all know what the cake was made of.
This is no longer necessary, at least with msysgit 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0.
Its root cause may have been fixed by other recent git path fixes.
It was causing the webapp to fail to make repos on other drives.
On Windows, a file that is not writable cannot be deleted even if in a
directory with write perms. So git object files were not getting deleted
when removing a git repository.
