Not yet implemented is recording hashes on download from web and
verifying hashes.
addurl --verifiable option added with -V short option because I
expect a lot of people will want to use this.
It seems likely that --verifiable will become the default eventually,
and possibly rather soon. While old git-annex versions don't support
VURL, that doesn't prevent using them with keys that use VURL. Of
course, they won't verify the content on transfer, and fsck will warn
that it doesn't know about VURL. So there's not much problem with
starting to use VURL even when interoperating with old versions.
Sponsored-by: Joshua Antonishen on Patreon
--raw-except=web allows using yt-dlp but not any other special remotes.
Currently this option can only be used once, trying to use it repeatedly
will make option parsing fail. Perhaps it ought to support being used more
than once, but it seemed like an unlikely use case to need that.
Note that getParsed is called repeatedly when the option is used with
several urls. While implementing DeferredParseClass would avoid that
innefficiency, it didn't seem worth the added boilerplate since
getParsed only calls byNameWithUUID which does minimal work.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's DANDI project
importfeed --force: Don't treat it as a failure when an already downloaded
file exists. (Fixes a behavior change introduced in 10.20230626.)
04ee6c4c6b caused the reversion. Inside a CommandPerform, stop causes it
to fail. Before that commit, it was inside a CommandStart, where stop
causes it to skip.
Which uses yt-dlp to screen scrape the equivilant of an RSS feed.
Note that youtubedlscraped is a speed optimisation. Since yt-dlp found
the urls, we know it can download them. That avoids calling
youtubeDlSupported on each url, which makes --fast a lot faster.
Almost all the same metadata fields and file formatting fields are
populated, when yt-dlp is able to get the data. Note that yt-dlp has some
additional useful metadata that could be exposed. But, much of it is
specific to particular websites, and it would be hard to document on the
git-annex importfeed man page.
Sponsored-by: unqueued on Patreon
importfeed: Use caching database to avoid needing to list urls on every
run, and avoid using too much memory.
Benchmarking in my podcasts repo, importfeed got 1.42 seconds faster,
and memory use dropped from 203000k to 59408k.
Database.ImportFeed is Database.ContentIdentifier with the serial number
filed off. There is a bit of code duplication I would like to avoid,
particularly recordAnnexBranchTree, and getAnnexBranchTree. But these use
the persistent sqlite tables, so despite the code being the same, they
cannot be factored out.
Since this database includes the contentidentifier metadata, it will be
slightly redundant if a sqlite database is ever added for metadata. I
did consider making such a generic database and using it for this. But,
that would then need importfeed to update both the url database and the
metadata database, which is twice as much work diffing the git-annex
branch trees. Or would entagle updating two databases in a complex way.
So instead it seems better to optimise the database that
importfeed needs, and if the metadata database is used by another command,
use a little more disk space and do a little bit of redundant work to
update it.
Sponsored-by: unqueued on Patreon
importfeed bug fix: When -J was used with multiple feeds, some feeds did
not get their items downloaded.
In my case, I had added a feed to the end of the list, and no items from it
were ever downloaded.
Sponsored-by: Leon Schuermann on Patreon
(And allow it to be used in the --template although that seems unlikely to
be very useful.)
My use case for this is that one of the podcast feeds I subscribe to is
sometimes leaking episodes of some other podcast. The other podcast is also
very close to spam, so this may be a form of intentional spamming. I have
not been able to catch the podcast feed containing those episodes, so I
don't know which one is at fault. So putting this in the metadata will let
me eventually catch it.
The input field is consistently the url of the feed, which makes sense
as that is the user input, but to differentiate multiple urls downloaded
from a feed when using --json-progress -J, need the url that is being
downloaded too.
Sponsored-By: the NIH-funded NICEMAN (ReproNim TR&D3) project
Both -J and --json needed importfeed to be refactored to use commandAction.
That was difficult, because of the interrelated nature of downloading feeds
and then downloading files from feeds, both of which needed to use
commandAction. And then checking for problems in feeds has to come after
these actions, which may be run as background jobs.
As for --json support, it's most of the way there, but still has some
warts, so I didn't enable jsonOptions yet. The warts include:
- An initial empty json record is displayed by getCache.
- Input is not populated, should be feed url
- feedProblem at end will not be captured by --json-error-messages
(see FIXME)
Sponsored-By: the NIH-funded NICEMAN (ReproNim TR&D3) project
This does, as a side effect, make long notes in json output not
be indented. The indentation is only needed to offset them
underneath the display of the file they apply to, so that's ok.
Sponsored-by: Brock Spratlen on Patreon
Converted warning and similar to use StringContainingQuotedPath. Most
warnings are static strings, some do refer to filepaths that need to be
quoted, and others don't need quoting.
Note that, since quote filters out control characters of even
UnquotedString, this makes all warnings safe, even when an attacker
sneaks in a control character in some other way.
When json is being output, no quoting is done, since json gets its own
quoting.
This does, as a side effect, make warning messages in json output not
be indented. The indentation is only needed to offset warning messages
underneath the display of the file they apply to, so that's ok.
Sponsored-by: Brett Eisenberg on Patreon
giveup changed to filter out control characters. (It is too low level to
make it use StringContainingQuotedPath.)
error still does not, but it should only be used for internal errors,
where the message is not attacker-controlled.
Changed a lot of existing error to giveup when it is not strictly an
internal error.
Of course, other exceptions can still be thrown, either by code in
git-annex, or a library, that include some attacker-controlled value.
This does not guard against those.
Sponsored-by: Noam Kremen on Patreon
When importing a bunch of feeds, this makes it more clear what it's working
on. Also, I sometimes want to delete a particular feed from a list of feeds
but don't know which url belongs to the feed, and this solves that.
Control characters are filtered out just to protect against some feed
putting escape character stuff in the feed, which could be a
security problem. (Control characters also get filtered out of
importfeed filenames.)
Sponsored-by: Luke Shumaker on Patreon
Works around this bug in unix-compat:
https://github.com/jacobstanley/unix-compat/issues/56
getFileStatus and other FilePath using functions in unix-compat do not do
UNC conversion on Windows.
Made Utility.RawFilePath use convertToWindowsNativeNamespace to do the
necessary conversion on windows to support long filenames.
Audited all imports of System.PosixCompat.Files to make sure that no
functions that operate on FilePath were imported from it. Instead, use
the equvilants from Utility.RawFilePath. In particular the
re-export of that module in Common had to be removed, which led to lots
of other changes throughout the code.
The changes to Build.Configure, Build.DesktopFile, and Build.TestConfig
make Utility.Directory not be needed to build setup. And so let it use
Utility.RawFilePath, which depends on unix, which cannot be in
setup-depends.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
This makes --all error out in that situation. Which is better than
ignoring information from the branches.
To really handle the branches right, overBranchFileContents would need
to both query all the branches and union merge file contents
(or perhaps not provide any file content), as well as diffing between
branches to find files that are only present in the unmerged branches.
And also, it would need to handle transitions..
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
As mentioned in commit 2bd778a46e, there
was mojibake when LANG=C.
Looking at parseFeedFromFile, it is very particular to read the file as
unicode. parseFeedString looks like it will accept any old String,
but a String that was read using the filesystem encoding will not in
fact have the right encoding.
I think this is a bug in the feed library and will file one.
Sponsored-by: Svenne Krap on Patreon
See comment for analysis.
At first I thought I'd need to convert all T.unpack in git-annex, but
luckily not -- so long as the Text is read from a file, the filesystem
encoding is applied and T.unpack is fine. It's only when using Feed
that the filesystem encoding is not applied.
While this fixes the crash, it does result in some mojibake, eg:
itemid=http://www.manager-tools.com/2014/01/choosing-a-company-work-chapter-7-���-questions/
Have not tracked that down, but it must be unrelated, because
I've verified that it roundtrips when using encodeUf8:
joey@darkstar:~/src/git-annex>LANG=C ghci Utility/FileSystemEncoding.hs
ghci> useFileSystemEncoding
ghci> Just f <- Text.Feed.Import.parseFeedFromFile "/home/joey/tmp/career_tools_podcasts.xml"
ghci> Just (_, x) = Text.Feed.Query.getItemId (Text.Feed.Query.feedItems f !! 0)
ghci> decodeBS (Data.Text.Encoding.encodeUtf8 x)
"http://www.manager-tools.com/2014/01/choosing-a-company-work-chapter-7-\56546\56448\56467-questions/"
ghci> writeFile "foo" $ decodeBS (Data.Text.Encoding.encodeUtf8 x)
Writes a file containing the ENDASH character.
Sponsored-by: Jochen Bartl on Patreon
Except when configuration makes curl be used. It did not seem worth
trying to tail the file when curl is downloading.
But when an interrupted download is resumed, it does not read the whole
existing file to hash it. Same reason discussed in
commit 7eb3742e4b76d1d7a487c2c53bf25cda4ee5df43; that could take a long
time with no progress being displayed. And also there's an open http
request, which needs to be consumed; taking a long time to hash the file
might cause it to time out.
Also in passing implemented it for git and external special remotes when
downloading from the web. Several others like S3 are within striking
distance now as well.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's DANDI project
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
* Fix bug that could make git-annex importfeed not see recently recorded
state when configured with annex.alwayscommit=false.
* importfeed: Made "checking known urls" phase run 12 times faster.
The massive speedup is because it no longer queries for metadata
accompanying each url. Instead it processes the whole git-annex branch and
checks all metadata files for feed item ids, and uses any it finds.
This could result in a behavior change, in an unlikely situation: If a feed
id is recorded in a key's metadata, but the url gets removed, the old code
would not see that item id and would re-download it if it finds an url for
it in a feed, while the new code will see the item id. I don't think
the old behavior was intentional, and it may be that the new behavior is
better. Not gonna worry about this.
This uses a DebugSelector, rather than debug levels, which will allow
for a later option like --debug-from=Process to only
see debuging about running processes.
The module name that contains the thing being debugged is used as the
DebugSelector (in most cases; does not need to be a hard and fast rule).
Debug calls were changed to add that. hslogger did not display
that first parameter to debugM, but the DebugSelector does get
displayed.
Also fastDebug will allow doing debugging in places that are used in
tight loops, with the DebugSelector coming from the Annex Reader
essentially for free. Not done yet.
This is common in some feeds, which might mix some items with enclosures,
with others that link to posts or whatever. Before this, it would try to
use youtube-dl and fail, or if youtube-dl was not allowed, it would
incorrectly complain that an url was supported by youtube-dl.
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.
This commit was sponsored by Denis Dzyubenko on Patreon.
Ensure that checkCanAdd is used everywhere a file is added to git,
so git add is run with -f, presumably avoiding the work it would usually
do to check ignores.
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.
The use case of this field is mostly to support -J combined with --json.
When that is implemented, a user will be able to look at the field to
determine which of the requests they have sent it corresponds to.
The field typically has a single value in its list, but in some cases
mutliple values (eg 2 command-line params) are combined together and the
list will have more.
Note that json parsing was already non-strict, so old git-annex metadata
--json --batch can be fed json produced by the new git-annex and will
not stumble over the new field.
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.
