An --unlock-present branch reverses back to a branch where
all files that get modified or renamed become locked, even if they were
originally unlocked. This is the same that reversing a --unlock branch
works, and the new name makes that commonality more clear.
Like --hide-missing the branch does not get updated when content
availability changes.
Seems to basically work, but sync does not update it yet.
Also, when a file is present and so unlocked, git mv followed by
git-annex sync results in the basis branch being updated to contain the
file with the new name, unlocked. This seems different than what
happens in an adjusted unlocked branch, where the commit propigates back
locked. Probably the reverse adjustment code needs to be improved to
handle this case.
Warn when adding a annex symlink or pointer file that uses a key that is
not known to the repository, to prevent confusion if the user has copied it
from some other repository.
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All properties changed to use them, except for
prop_encode_c_decode_c_roundtrip, which already filtered to ascii
for other reasons.
A few modules had to be split out, because Setup does not build-depend
on QuickCheck.
This fixes a bug where a file that was not preferred content could be
transferred to a remote. This happened when the file got deleted after
the sync started running.
The only time checkMatcher is run without a Key is in calls to
checkFileMatcher, which are only done by add, addurl, import, and
smudge --clean. Those won't be affected by this kind of race. Anything
else that might be precaching and have a similar race as sync will also
be fixed, but I don't know if it actually affected anything other than
sync.
As well as fixing a bug, this also probably makes sync and --auto faster
by avoiding the redundant key lookup.
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instance Arbitrary [Char] allows that, and it's not a legal part of a
filename so can break processing them.
Noticed when prop_view_roundtrips failed.
The instance Arbitrary AssociatedFile avoids this problem.
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Lots of nice wins from this in avoiding unncessary work, and I think
nothing got slower.
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Make sure to relay any remaining stderr from the process after it has
shut down, rather than closing stderr just before shutdown. This avoids
a situation where the process is still running and tries to write to
stderr, getting a SIGPIPE. And, it ensures that no stderr output is
lost.
This may fix a problem encountered by datalad on windows, where it hangs
during the external special remote shutdown.
Before commit a49d300545, it closed stdin
and stdout, but left stderr open, and never killed the stderr waiter
thread, which presumably exited on its own. For async exception
safety, do need to at make sure that thread gets waited on, as that
commit does, but it introduced this problem.
Note that, the process's stdout is closed before waiting on it. It's too
late for anything it writes to stdout to be processed, and since we're
not going to consume any such writes, this avoids the process getting
blocked writing to stdout due to us not reading what it's buffered. This
does mean that if the process writes to stdout too late, it will get a
SIGPIPE. (This was already the case before the above-mentioned commit.)
In practice, I think only the protocol's ERROR is allowed to be
sent at a point where this could happen.
removeFile changed to removeLink, because AFAICS it should be fine to
remove non-file things here. In particular, it's fine to remove a
symlink, since we're about to write a symlink. (removeLink does not
remove directories, so file, symlink, and unix socket are the only
possibilities.)
nukeFile replaced with removeWhenExistsWith removeLink, which allows
using RawFilePath. Utility.Directory cannot use RawFilePath since setup
does not depend on posix.
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Notable wins in Annex.Locations which was sometimes doing 6 conversions
in a single function call.
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Because it's a special character on Windows ("c:").
Use same technique already used for '/' and '\'.
I didn't record how I generated their encoded forms before, so am sure
there was a better way, but the way I did it now is to look at
ghci> encodeFilePath "∕"
"\226\136\149"
And then the difference from that to "\56546\56456\56469"
is adding 56320 to each, to get up to the escaped code plane.
See comment for why I think handling ':' is ok, but that other illegal
windows filenames won't. Note that, this should be enough to make the
test suite always work. Other windows illegal filenames will fail at
checkout time when it tries to put the illegal filename on the
filesystem.
In cases where numcopies checks prevented the resumed move from dropping
the object from the source repository, it now relies on a log of recent
moves to replicate the behavior of the interrupted command.
Performance: Probably noticable impact, since it has to add to the log,
check the log, and remove from the log. Seems worth it to avoid this
annoying edge case. The log functions are pretty well optimised to avoid
unncessary work.
An performance improvement to make later would be to avoid cleanup doing
anything if it's not written to the log file, and has confirmed that the
log file does not contain the log line.
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Those are not installed by git-annex but by the user, and so removal
will never find the default content, and so if the user did install
them, it would display a misleading message.
Seems better, since the user installed them, to let the user remove them
if they want to.
isKnownImportLocation does a database lookup and there's an index
to make that lookup fast, so it's probably faster than talking to git
check-ignore. Checking the matcher is faster still.
While before the gitignore check was added it did not need to always
check isknown, now it does, because it's that or the more expensive
notignored. But at least we can skip notignored when a file is known,
which will often be the common case: Importing from a remote that's been
exported to, and/or imported from before, only new files will not be
known, so only those will need to check notignored.
At first, I had this:
(matches <&&> (isknown <||> notignored)) <||> isknown
Notice that checks isknown every time, whether it matches or not.
So, it's no slower to instead do this:
isknown <||> (matches <&&> notignored)
That has the benefit that, when it's known, it doesn't need to run
matches, which while faster than isknown, is still going to use some CPU.
And it perhaps more clearly expresses the condition: Any known file is
wanted, otherwise it's down to what matches and is not ignored.
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It seemed best to do this, for consistency with every other way files can
get into a git-annex repo. Although it's just a bit strange that a local
.gitignore file affects the pseudo-commits made for the remote that's
imported from.
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Which lets progress be displayed when doing concurrent downloads.
Amoung other things, like --json-progress etc.
The youtube-dl output is no longer displayed, except for any errors.
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sync: When run without --content, import without copying from
importtree=yes directory special remotes. (Other special remotes may
support this later as well.)
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This avoids import with --no-content and with --content potentially
generating two different trees, leading to a merge conflict when run in
two different clones of a repo. And it's necessary groundwork to make
git-annex sync --no-content import from special remotes that support
importKey.
Only the directory special remote currently supports importKey, and it
generates the same key as git-annex usually does, so there is no
behavior change for it.
Future special remotes will need to take care when adding importKey,
if it generates different keys. Added some warnings about that to
comments.
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Import small files into git, the same as is done when importing with content.
Which means, for small files, --no-content does download them.
If the largefiles expression needs the file content available
(due to mimetype or mimeencoding being used), the import will fail.
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The latter is for git-annex matchexpression and matching against it can
throw an exception. Splitting out the former reduces the potential for
mistakes and avoids needing to worry about matching against that
throwing an exception.
This is more groundwork for matching largefiles while importing,
without downloading content.
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Anything that needs to examine the file content will fail to match,
or fall back to other available information. But the intent is that the
matcher be checked for matchNeedsFileContent and only be used if it does
not, so the exact behavior doesn't much matter as it should never
happen.
The real point of this is to not need to provide a dummy content file
when matching.
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Believed to be no longer needed as I've squashed the last ones.
Note that, in Test.Framework, I can see no reason for the code to have
run it twice. It does not cause running processes to exit after all,
so any process that has leaked and is running and causing problems with
cleanup of the directory won't be helped by running it.
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Eliminate a zombie that was only cleaned up by the later zombie cleanup
code.
This is still not ideal, it would be cleaner if it used conduit or
something, and if the thread gets killed before waiting, it won't stop
the process.
Only remaining zombies are in CmdLine.Seek
Sped up seeking for files to operate on, when using options like --copies
or --in, by around 20%.
Benchmark showed an increase for --copies from 155 seconds to 121
seconds, and --in remote will be similar to that.
For --in here, the speedup was less, 5-10% or so.
(both warm cache)
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Sped up seeking to around twice as fast, by avoiding a pass over the
worktree files when preferred content expressions of the local repo and
remotes don't use include=/exclude=.
Thanks to Lukey for identifying the optimisation.
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matchNeedsFileContent is not used yet, but shows how to add information
about terminals. That one would be needed for
https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/sync_fast_import/
Note the tricky bit in Annex.FileMatcher.call where it folds over the
included matcher to propagate the information.
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add, addurl, importfeed, import: Added --no-check-gitignore option
for finer grained control than using --force.
(--force is used for too many different things, and at least one
of these also uses it for something else. I would like to reduce
--force's footprint until it only forces drops or a few other data
losses. For now, --force still disables checking ignores too.)
addunused: Don't check .gitignores when adding files. This is a behavior
change, but I justify it by analogy with git add of a gitignored file
adding it, asking to add all unused files back should add them all back,
not skip some. The old behavior was surprising.
In Command.Lock and Command.ReKey, CheckGitIgnore False does not change
behavior, it only makes explicit what is done. Since these commands are run
on annexed files, the file is already checked into git, so git add won't
check ignores.
No behavior changes (hopefully), just adding SeekInput and plumbing it
through to the JSON display code for later use.
Over the course of 2 grueling days.
withFilesNotInGit reimplemented in terms of seekHelper
should be the only possible behavior change. It seems to test as
behaving the same.
Note that seekHelper dummies up the SeekInput in the case where
segmentPaths' gives up on sorting the expanded paths because there are
too many input paths. When SeekInput later gets exposed as a json field,
that will result in it being a little bit wrong in the case where
100 or more paths are passed to a git-annex command. I think this is a
subtle enough problem to not matter. If it does turn out to be a
problem, fixing it would require splitting up the input
parameters into groups of < 100, which would make git ls-files run
perhaps more than is necessary. May want to revisit this, because that
fix seems fairly low-impact.
Works better with automatic merge conflict resolution than git's ususual
default of "conflict".
This is not done when automatic merge conflict resolution is disabled.
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Make all calls to git merge go through autoMergeFrom, in preparation
for fine-tuning git merge's config for automatic merge conflict
resolution.
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This case was handled by cleanConflictCruft, but only when the annexed
file's object was present. When not present, it left the annexed file
with the original name, not checked into git, while adding the variant
file. So, add an explicit deletion of the deleted file in this case.
My specific case where this happened actually involves
merge.directoryRenames=conflict. After a merge involving that,
the situation was the file appears as "added by them", because that
caused the file that they added to be moved into a directory we renamed.
That case is the same as them adding a modified version of the file,
while we deleted it. (Except for the history of the file, since it's a
new file, but this doesn't look at history.)
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This does not actually change how the merge conflict is resolved when
one side deleted the file, but it was not documented before, and I think
it only worked by accident.
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One reason is, 5 is an arbitrary number so ought to be configurable.
The real reason though, is I wanted to make the man page explain when
forward retry can override annex.retry, and having a config made the
man page easier to write.
This fixes the problem that, if forwardRetry was checked for the first 5
and decided to retry, the 6th would go to configuredRetry which would
see the counter was 6 and so wait retry-delay*2^5 seconds (default 32).
Now, it waits for retry-delay before each retry, even when forwardRetry
initiated the retry.
Also audited for other calls to openTempFile, and all are ok,
except for viaTmp which will need further work.
Remote.Directory fixed to set umask mode when writing to an export,
although it has another one using viaTmp that's not fixed.
Will make exports that are published via a http server running as
another user work, for example.
Remote.BitTorrent fixed to set umask mode when downloading the torrent
file. Normally this does not matter as that file does not hang around
after the download, but if a bittorrent download were started by one user,
got interrupted and then another user ran it, this will let them access
the torrent file created by the first user.
Fixes reversion in 8.20200617 that made annex.pidlock being enabled result
in some commands stalling, particularly those needing to autoinit.
Renamed runsGitAnnexChildProcess to make clearer where it should be
used.
Arguably, it would be better to have a way to make any process git-annex
runs have the env var set. But then it would need to take the pid lock
when running any and all processes, and that would be a problem when
git-annex runs two processes concurrently. So, I'm left doing it ad-hoc
in places where git-annex really does run a child process, directly
or indirectly via a particular git command.
sanitizeFilePath was changed to sanitize leading '.', but ImportFeed was
running it on parts of the template. So eg the leading '.' in the extension
got sanitized.
Note the added case for sanitizeLeadingFilePathCharacter ('/':_)
-- this was added because, if the template is title/episode and the title
is not set, it would expand to "/episode". So this is another potential
security fix.
This was already prevented in other ways, but as seen in commit
c30fd24d91, those were a bit fragile.
And I'm not sure races were avoided in every case before. At least a
race between two separate git-annex processes, dropping the same
content, seemed possible.
This way, if locking fails, and the content is not present, it will
always do the right thing. Also, it avoids the overhead of an unncessary
inAnnex check for every file.
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The test suite noticed this case, where two files with the same key are
dropped, and the seek stage sees both have content due to the way files
stream through it. But then locking the content to drop fails on the
second file, because the first file has already been dropped.
So, add back otherwise redundant inAnnex check.
Sped up seeking files to drop by 2x, and also some performance
improvements to checking numcopies.
Interestingly, the seek speedup is not due to precaching, but I think is
due to calling getParsed earlier.
Annex.Drop had to be changed to check inAnnex there, since it was removed
from Command.Drop. All other users of Command.Drop already checked inAnnex
themselves.
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This is groundwork for external backends, but also makes sense to keep
this information with the rest of a Backend's implementation.
Also, removed isVerifiable. I noticed that the same information is
encoded by whether a Backend implements verifyKeyContent or not.
planned to use for an optimisation
most things using stagedDetails were not expecting to get dup files in a
conflicted merge and deal with them, so converted them to use
inRepoDetails.
And convert parser to attoparsec, probably faster.
Before, a parse failure threw the whole --stage output line in to the
filename, which was certianly a bad idea, so fixed that.
My worry was that a preferred content expression that matches on metadata
would have removed the location log from cache, causing an expensive
re-read when a Seek action later checked the location log.
Especially when the --all optimisation in the previous commit
pre-cached the location log.
This also means that the --all optimisation could cache the metadata log
too, if it wanted too, but not currently done.
The cache is a list, with the most recently accessed file first. That
optimises it for the common case of reading the same file twice, eg a
get, examine, followed by set reads it twice. And sync --content reads the
location log 3 times in a row commonly.
But, as a list, it should not be made to be too long. I thought about
expanding it to 5 items, but that seemed unlikely to be a win commonly
enough to outweigh the extra time spent checking the cache.
Clearly there could be some further benchmarking and tuning here.
The cache was removed way back in 2012,
commit 3417c55189
Then I forgot I had removed it! I remember clearly multiple times when I
thought, "this reads the same data twice, but the cache will avoid that
being very expensive".
The reason it was removed was it messed up the assistant noticing when
other processes made changes. That same kind of problem has recently
been addressed when adding the optimisation to avoid reading the journal
unnecessarily.
Indeed, enableInteractiveJournalAccess is run in just the
right places, so can just piggyback on it to know when it's not safe
to use the cache.
Only supported by some special remotes: directory
I need to check the rest and they're currently missing methods until I do.
git-annex sync --no-content does not yet use this to do imports
This adds a dep on hashable, but it's a free dependency, since
unordered-containers already pulled it in.
Using unordered-containers for the set seems to make sense, since it
hashes and bloom filter hashes too. (Though different hashes.)
I dunno, never quite know if I should use unordered-containers or containers.
This is a fairly hard to understand situation for the user. Listing the
remotes should help them understand it a bit better.
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git is making that configurable, and configuring it globally would break
the test suite in a few places.
No other part of git-annex assumes any branch name. Renamed a few
placeholders to make that clearer.
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Otherwise use the vendored copy as before.
The library is in Debian testing but not stable. Once it reaches
stable, the vendored copy can be removed.
Did not add it to debian/control because IIRC that's used to build
git-annex on stable too, possibly. However, the Debian maintainer will
probably want to make the package depend on libghc-http-client-restricted-dev
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Clean build under ghc 8.8.3, which seems to do better at finding cases
where two imports both provide the same symbol, and warns about one of
them.
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Fix a deadlock that could occur after git-annex got an unlocked file,
causing the command to hang indefinitely.
Known to happen on vfat filesystems, possibly others.
Note that a deadlock is still theoretically possible, if anything
smudge --clean does causes it to run the git queue for some other
reason.
Apparently that doesn't happen, but will need to keep an eye on it.
That made eg git-annex get of an unlocked file hang until the
annex.pidlocktimeout and then fail.
This fix should be fully thread safe no matter what else git-annex is
doing.
Only using runsGitAnnexChildProcess in the one place it's known to be a
problem. Could audit for all places where git-annex runs itself as a child
and add it to all of them, later.
Fix bug that made creds not be stored in git when a special remote was
initialized with gpg encryption, but without an explicit embedcreds=yes.
(Yet nother regression introduced in version 7.20200202.7. 5th so far.)
* Improve display of problems auto-initializing or upgrading local git
remotes.
* When a local git remote cannot be initialized because it has no
git-annex branch or a .noannex file, avoid displaying a message about it.
The ContentIdentifier can contain almost anything, so could have characters
that are not fit for the filesystem, or might be longer than a key usually
is, or contain a newline, or .... genKeyName deals with those problems.
This should not present a back-compat issue, because this is a temporary
key used while downloading the imported file, before the real key for it
can be generated.
Some recent changes to use mask missed that async exceptions can still
be thrown inside it. The goal is to make sure a block of cleanup code
runs entirely, w/o being interrupted by an async exception, so use
uninterruptibleMask.
Also, converted a few to bracket, which is nicer.
Audited for openFile and openFd, and this fixes all the ones I found
where an async exception could prevent the file getting closed.
Except for the lock pool, which is a whole other can of worms.
Except for the assistant, which I think may use them between threads?
Most of the uses of SomeException were already catching only async exceptions.
But I did find a few places that were accidentially catching them.
This handles all createProcessSuccess callers, and aside from process
pools, the complete conversion of all process running to async exception
safety should be complete now.
Also, was able to remove from Utility.Process the old API that I now
know was not a good idea. And proof it was bad: The code size went *down*,
despite there being a fair bit of boilerplate for some future API to
reduce.
This handles all sites where checkSuccessProcess/ignoreFailureProcess
is used, except for one: Git.Command.pipeReadLazy
That one will be significantly more work to convert to bracketing.
(Also skipped Command.Assistant.autoStart, but it does not need to
shut down the processes it started on exception because they are
git-annex assistant daemons..)
forceSuccessProcess is done, except for createProcessSuccess.
All call sites of createProcessSuccess will need to be converted
to bracketing.
(process pools still todo also)
Not yet 100% done, so far I've grepped for waitForProcess and converted
everything that uses that to start the process with withCreateProcess.
Except for some things like P2P.IO and Assistant.TransferrerPool,
and Utility.CoProcess, that manage a pool of processes. See #2
in https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/more_extensive_retries_to_mask_transient_failures/#comment-209f8a8c38e63fb3a704e1282cb269c7
for how those will need to be dealt with.
checkSuccessProcess, ignoreFailureProcess, and forceSuccessProcess calls waitForProcess, so
callers of them will also need to be dealt with, and have not been yet.
Added annex.skipunknown git config, that can be set to false to change the
behavior of commands like `git annex get foo*`, to not skip over files/dirs
that are not checked into git and are explicitly listed in the command
line.
Significant complexity was needed to handle git-annex add, which uses some
git ls-files calls, but needs to not use --error-unmatch because of course
the files are not known to git.
annex.skipunknown is planned to change to default to false in a
git-annex release in early 2022. There's a todo for that.
Try to enable special remotes configured with autoenable=yes when git-annex
auto-initialization happens in a new clone of an existing repo. Previously,
git-annex init had to be explicitly run to enable them. That was a bit of a
wart of a special case for users to need to keep in mind.
Special remotes cannot display anything when autoenabled this way, to avoid
interfering with the output of git-annex query commands.
Any error messages will be hidden, and if it fails, nothing is displayed.
The user will realize the remote isn't enable when they try to use it,
and can run git-annex init manually then to try the autoenable again and
see what failed.
That seems like a reasonable approach, and it's less complicated than
communicating something across a pipe in order to display it as a side
message. Other reason not to do that is that, if the first command the
user runs is one like git-annex find that has machine readable output,
any message about autoenable failing would need to not be displayed anyway.
So better to not display a failure message ever, for consistency.
(Had to split out Remote.List.Util to avoid an import cycle.)
retrieveExport is part of ongoing transition to make remote methods
throw exceptions, rather than silently hide them.
getKey very rarely fails, and when it does it's always for the same reason
(user configured annex.backend to url for some reason). So, this will
avoid dealing with Nothing everywhere it's used.
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When storing content on remote fails, always display a reason why.
Since the Storer used by special remotes already did, this mostly affects
git remotes, but not entirely. For example, if git-lfs failed to connect to
the endpoint, it used to silently return False.
* addurl --preserve-filename: New option, uses server-provided filename
without any sanitization, but with some security checking.
Not yet implemented for remotes other than the web.
* addurl, importfeed: Avoid adding filenames with leading '.', instead
it will be replaced with '_'.
This might be considered a security fix, but a CVE seems unwattanted.
It was possible for addurl to create a dotfile, which could change
behavior of some program. It was also possible for a web server to say
the file name was ".git" or "foo/.git". That would not overrwrite the
.git directory, but would cause addurl to fail; of course git won't
add "foo/.git".
sanitizeFilePath is too opinionated to remain in Utility, so moved it.
The changes to mkSafeFilePath are because it used sanitizeFilePath.
In particular:
isDrive will never succeed, because "c:" gets munged to "c_"
".." gets sanitized now
".git" gets sanitized now
It will never be null, because sanitizeFilePath keeps the length
the same, and splitDirectories never returns a null path.
Also, on the off chance a web server suggests a filename of "",
ignore that, rather than trying to save to such a filename, which would
fail in some way.
addurl: When run with --fast on an url that
annex.security.allowed-ip-addresses prevents accessing, display a more
useful message.
(Also importfeed --fast potentially.)
Limited to min of -JN or number of CPU cores, because it will often be
CPU bound, once it's read the gitignore file for a directory.
In some situations it's more disk bound, but in any case it's unlikely
to be the main bottleneck that -J is used to avoid. Eg, when dropping,
this is used for numcopies checks, but the main bottleneck will be
accessing the remotes to verify presence. So the user might decide to
-J32 that, but having 32 check-attr processes would just waste however
many filehandles they open, and probably worsen their performance due to
CPU contention.
Note that, I first tried just letting up to the -JN be started. However,
even when it's no bottleneck at all, that still results in all of them
being started. Why? Well, all the worker threads start up nearly
simulantaneously, so there's a thundering herd..
Avoid running a large number of git cat-file child processes when run with
a large -J value.
This implementation takes care to avoid adding any overhead to git-annex
when run without -J. When run with -J, there is a small bit of added
overhead, to manipulate the resource pool. That optimisation added a
fair bit of complexity.
This does mean that RemoteDaemon.Transport.Tor's call runs it, otherwise
no change, but this is groundwork for doing more such expensive actions
in dupState.
Fixes a failure mode where git-annex sync would try to run git-annex and
complain that it failed to find it in ~/.config/git-annex/program or PATH,
when there was a git-annex in /usr/bin/, but the original one was run
from elsewhere (eg, ~/bin) and happened not to be present any longer.
Now, it will fall back to using git-annex from PATH in such a case.
Which might fail due to some version incompatability, but still better
than a misleading error message.
Also made readProgramFile only read the file, not look for git-annex in
PATH as a fallback. That fallback may have confused Assistant.Upgrade,
which really wants the value from the file.
The journal read optimisation in aeca7c220 later got fixed in eedd73b84
to stage and commit any files that were left in the journal by a
previous git-annex run. That's necessary for the optimisation to work
correctly. But it also meant that alwayscommit=false started committing
the previous git-annex processes journalled changes, which defeated the
purpose of the config setting entirely.
So, disable the optimisation when alwayscommit=false, leaving the
files in the journal and not committing them. See my comments on the bug
report for why this seemed the best approach.
Also fixes a problem when annex.merge-annex-branches=false and there
are changes in the journal. That config indirectly prevents committing
the journal. (Which seems a bit odd given its name, but it always has..)
So, when there were changes in the journal, perhaps left there due to
alwayscommit=false being set before, the optimisation would prevent
git-annex from reading the journal files, and it would operate with out
of date information.
This change does impact git-annex config
eg "git annex config --set annex.addunlocked on"
will store "on" and new git-annex will understand that value, while
old git-annex will error:
git-annex: bad annex.addunlocked configuration in git annex config:
Parse failure: near "on"
That seems acceptable.
Not special remote configs that are only documented as =true or =false
however. Having git-annex support other values for those would break
backwards compatability when used with old versions of git-annex. And
older versions ignore invalid special remote configs.. That would not
be a good combination.
Git has an obnoxious special case in git config, a line "foo" is the same
as "foo = true". That means there is no way to examine the output of
git config and tell if it was run with --null or not, since a "foo"
in the first line could be such a boolean, or could be followed by its
value on the next line if --null were used.
So, rather than trying to do such a detection, track the style of config
at all the points where it's generated.
aeca7c2207 was predicated on the
assumption that updateTo would stage any journal files, but in one case
it did not actually do so. The test suite happened to expose the bug.
The only price paid is one additional MVar read per write to the journal.
Presumably writing a journal file dominiates over a MVar read time by
several orders of magnitude.
--batch does not get the speedup because then it needs to notice when
another process has made a change. Also made the assistant and other damon
modes bypass the optimisation, which would not help them anyway.
Improve git-annex's ability to find the path to its program, especially
when it needs to run itself in another repo to upgrade it.
Some parts of the code used readProgramFile, probably because I forgot that
programPath exists.
I noticed this when a git-annex auto-upgrade failed because it was running
git-annex upgrade --autoonly, but the code to run git-annex used
readProgramFile, which happened to point to an older build of git-annex.
This was originally added so that unannex could prevent the hook from
running while files were in a state that the hook would interpret as
old-style unlocked and so would lock.
Now that's gone, so the only thing the hook was preventing was two
pre-commit processes running simulantaneously. But such concurrency
is normal in git-annex and should not be a problem.
Does mean that .git/hooks/pre-commit-annex might run more concurrently,
that seems the only risk of it causing any problems.
This means it will still be a .git file when git-annex init runs. That's
ok, the repo probably contains no annexed objects yet, and even if it does,
git-annex init does not care if symlinks in the worktree don't point to the
objects.
I made init, at the end, run the conversion code. Not really necessary
because the next git-annex command could do it just as well. But, this
avoids commands that don't normally write to the repo needing to write to
it, which might avoid some problem or other, and seems worth avoiding
generally.
Since it was used on both worktree and .git/annex files, split into
multiple functions.
In passing, this also improves permissions of created directories in
.git/annex, using createAnnexDirectory on those.
It will create foo/.git/annex/, but not foo/.git/ and not foo/.
This will avoid it creating an empty path to a repo when a drive is
yanked out and the mount point goes away, for example.
