findShellCommand needs a full path to a file in order to check it for a
shebang on Windows. It was being run with only the base name of the external
special remote program, which would only work when it was in the current
directory.
This is why users in
https://github.com/DanielDent/git-annex-remote-rclone/pull/10 and elsewhere
were complaining that the previous improvements to git-annex didn't make
git-remote-rclone work on Windows.
Also, reworked checkearlytermination, which while it worked, seemed
to rely on a race condition. And, improved its error messages.
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It was distributing jobs to remotes that were not being used by any other
job. But, suppose that there are only 2 remotes, and -J10. In such a case,
the first 2 downloads would be distributed amoung the 2 remotes, but
the other 8 would all go to remote #1. Improved by keeping a counter
of how many jobs are assigned to a remote, and prefer remotes with fewer
jobs.
Note use of Data.Map.Strict to avoid blowing up space. I kept the
bang-patterns as-is, although probably not needed with Data.Map.Strict.
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The slowdown is not going to be large in typical small-ish repos.
And it does not seem to matter if the assistant reacts a little bit slower
in situations involving the expensive scan, since:
a) Those situations typically involve getting back in sync after something
has changed on a remote, often after a disconnect of some duration.
So taking a few seconds more is not noticable.
b) If the scan finds things that it needs to do, it will start
blocking anyway after 10 transfers are queued (due to use of
queueTransferWhenSmall). So, only the speed of finding the first 10
transfers will be impacted by this change.
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