If .git/config symlinks are ever a thing, this will handle them better.
But mostly, this is to avoid git-repair needing to include CopyFile,
which would complicate it unduely.
In commit dfc4e641b5 git repair was changed
to use remote name, not url, when fetching. But it fetches into a temporary
git repo, which doesn't have remotes configured. Oops.
(In my defense, that commit was made just as covid lockdown started. But
testing? Urk.)
Sponsored-by: Mark Reidenbach on Patreon
Fixed bug that interrupting git-annex repair (or assistant) while it was
fixing repository corruption would lose objects that were contained in pack
files.
Unpack all pack files and move objects into place *before* deleting the
pack files. The old approach moved the pack files to a temp directory
before unpacking them, which was not interruption safe.
Sponsored-By: Jochen Bartl on Patreon
Forces eg, download with youtube-dl without falling back to raw download.
Since youtube-dl failing due to an url not being supported is difficult to
distinguish from it failing due to being blocked in some way, this can be
useful to avoid the fallback of git-annex downloading the raw web page and
adding that.
Since --raw also prevents using special remotes, --no-raw also
allows special remote downloads. Although it's always possible that some
special remote may claim an url and fall back to raw download of the
content, which --no-raw cannot prevent.
Sponsored-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. 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unused log was out of date, eg a file used to be unused but then got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
