The smuge filter no longer provides git with annexed file content, to
avoid a git memory leak, and because that did not honor annex.thin.
git annex smudge --update has to be run after a checkout to update
unlocked files in the working tree with annexed file contents.
No hooks yet to run it.
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* rmurl: Fix a case where removing the last url left git-annex thinking
content was still present in the web special remote.
* SETURLPRESENT, SETURIPRESENT, SETURLMISSING, and SETURIMISSING
used to update the presence information of the external special remote
that called them; this was not documented behavior and is no longer done.
Done by making setUrlPresent and setUrlMissing only update presence info
for the web, and only when the url is a web url. See the comment for
reasoning about why that's the right thing to do.
In AddUrl, had to make it update location tracking, to handle the
non-web-url case.
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Since the same key can be stored in a versioned S3 bucket multiple times
with different version IDs, this allows tracking them all. Not currently
needed, but if we ever want to drop from a versioned S3 bucket, we'll
need to know them all.
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Actually very straightforward reuse of the metadata log file code.
Although I had to add a todo item as git-annex forget won't clean up
dead remote's metadata yet.
This would be worth adding to the external special remote interface
sometime. Have not opened a todo though, guess I'll wait until something
needs it.
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Make exporttree=yes remotes that are appendonly not be untrusted, and not force
verification of content, since the usual concerns about losing data when an
export is updated by someone else don't apply.
Note that all the remote operations on keys are left as usual for
appendonly export remotes, except for storing content.
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v6: When annex.largefiles is not configured for a file, running git add or
git commit, or otherwise using git to stage a file will add it to the annex
if the file was in the annex before, and to git otherwise. This is to avoid
accidental conversion.
Note that git-annex add's behavior has not changed, for reasons explained
in the added comment.
Performance: No added overhead when annex.largefiles is configured.
When not configured, there is an added call to catObjectMetaData,
which involves a round trip through git cat-file --batch.
However, the earlier catKeyFile primes the cache for it.
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Added annex.commitmessage config that can specify a commit message for the
git-annex branch instead of the usual "update".
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This leaves git annex unused --from remote still using loggedKeysFor
and buffering more than ought to be necessary, but I can't see a way to
improve that.
In Annex.Branch.branch, the (++) was killing laziness.
Rewrote so it streams lazily.
filterM also kills laziness, so made loggedKeys use a Unchecked type,
and check if the key is dead in the seek loop.
Note that loggedKeysFor still buffers, so git-annex info <remote> and
git-annex unused --from remote still use more memory than necessary.
Also removed some unused functions from Annex.Journal.
Switch to Data.Map.Strict everywhere that used it.
There are still lots of lazy maps in git-annex. I think switching these
is safe. The risk is that there might be a map that is used in a way
that relies on the values not being evaluated to WHNF, and switching to
strict might result in bad performance or memory use. So, I have not
switched everything.
Flipped all comparisons. When a TrustLevel list was wanted from Trusted
downwards, used Down to compare it in that order.
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This commit removes the Ord and Enum instances, commenting out all code
that depends on them, to make sure that all code effected by the
inversion fix has been identified.
(Assuming no ifdefs involve TrustLevel.)
The next commit will fix up all the identified code.
Avoid creating transfer info file before transfer lock is created and
locked.
The wrong order for one thing caused transfer info to be overwritten
when a transfer was already in progress.
But worse, it caused checkTransfer to see the transfer info,
and so lock the transfer lock in order to verify the transfer was not in
progress. Which in a concurrent situation, prevented the transferrer
from locking the transfer lock, so it failed with "transfer already in
progress".
Note that the transferinfo command does not lock the transfer lock
before creating the transfer info. But, that's only run after
recvkey is running, and recvkey does lock the transfer lock, so that
seems more or less ok. (Other than being a super complicated legacy mess
that the P2P code has mostly obsoleted now.)
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Fix more places where files in .git/annex/ were written with modes that
did not take the core.sharedRepository config into account.
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git grep writeFile finds some more that might also be problems, but
for now I've concentrated on .git/annex/ log files. There are certianly
cases where writeFile is not a problem too.
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This avoids all the complication about redundant work discussed in
the previous try at fixing this. At the expense of needing each command
that could have the problem to be patched to simply wrap the action in
onlyActionOn once the key is known. But there do not seem to be many
such commands.
onlyActionOn' should not be used with a CommandStart (or CommandPerform),
although the types do allow it. onlyActionOn handles running the whole
CommandStart chain. I couldn't immediately see a way to avoid mistken
use of onlyActionOn'.
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After a false start, I found a fairly non-intrusive way to deal with it.
Although it only handles transfers -- there may be issues with eg
concurrent dropping of the same key, or other operations.
There is no added overhead when -J is not used, other than an added
inAnnex check. When -J is used, it has to maintain and check a small
Set, which should be negligible overhead.
It could output some message saying that the transfer is being done by
another thread. Or it could even display the same progress info for both
files that are being downloaded since they have the same content. But I
opted to keep it simple, since this is rather an edge case, so it just
doesn't say anything about the transfer of the file until the other
thread finishes.
Since the deferred transfer action still runs, actions that do more than
transfer content will still get a chance to do their other work. (An
example of something that needs to do such other work is P2P.Annex,
where the download always needs to receive the content from the peer.)
And, if the first thread fails to complete a transfer, the second thread
can resume it.
But, this unfortunately means that there's a risk of redundant work
being done to transfer a key that just got transferred.
That's not ideal, but should never cause breakage; the same
thing can occur when running two separate git-annex processes.
The get/move/copy/mirror --from commands had extra inAnnex checks added,
inside the download actions. Without those checks, the first thread
downloaded the content, and then the second thread woke up and
downloaded the same content redundantly.
move/copy/mirror --to is left doing redundant uploads for now. It
would need a second checkPresent of the remote inside the upload
to avoid them, which would be expensive. A better way to avoid
redundant work needs to be found..
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In my git-annex repos, I found some stale transfer info files
without lock files.
Pass a mode to tryLockExclusive, so it will create the lock file if
not present, and so not fail to clean up such transfer info files.
Normally, transfer info files are accompanied by a lock file.
But, when alwaysRunTransfer is used, the locking can fail
and it will still write the transfer info file. Perhaps there are other
cases too? Note that mkProgressUpdater's meter
writes to the transfer info file too, and it might be possible for
that meter to fire after runTransfer has cleaned up.
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It was not getting old lines removed, because the tree graft confused
the updater, so it union merged from the previous git-annex branch,
which still contained the old lines. Fixed by carefully using setIndexSha.
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This breaks backwards compatibility, but only with unreleased versions of
git-annex, which I think is acceptable.
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This way, the temp files that might be left due to failure will be
cleaned up next time.
Also, nub the list of incomplete exports to avoid repeatedly adding the
same tree to it when running export repeatedly when it's failing.
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Don't allow "exporttree=yes" to be set when the special remote
does not support exports. That would be confusing since the user would
set up a special remote for exports, but `git annex export` to it would
later fail.
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Not yet used, but essential for resuming cleanly.
Note that, in normmal operation, only one commit is made to export.log
during an export; the incomplete version only gets to the journal and
is then overwritten.
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Straightforward enough, except for the needed belt-and-suspenders sanity
checks to avoid foot shooting due to exports not being key/value stores.
* Even when annex.verify=false, always verify from exports.
* Only get files from exports that use a backend that supports
checksum verification.
* Never trust exports, even if the user says to, because then
`git annex drop` would drop content if the export seemed to contain
a copy.
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So it will be available later and elsewhere, even after GC.
I first though to use git update-index to do this, but feeding it a line
with a tree object seems to always cause it to generate a git subtree
merge. So, fell back to using the Git.Tree interface to maniupulate the
trees, and not involving the git-annex branch index file at all.
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Can be used to override the default timestamps used in log files in the
git-annex branch. This is a dangerous environment variable; use with
caution.
Note that this only affects writing to the logs on the git-annex branch.
It is not used for metadata in git commits (other env vars can be set for
that).
There are many other places where timestamps are still used, that don't
get committed to git, but do touch disk. Including regular timestamps
of files, and timestamps embedded in some files in .git/annex/, including
the last fsck timestamp and timestamps in transfer log files.
A good way to find such things in git-annex is to get for getPOSIXTime and
getCurrentTime, although some of the results are of course false positives
that never hit disk (unless git-annex gets swapped out..)
So this commit does NOT necessarily make git-annex comply with some HIPPA
privacy regulations; it's up to the user to determine if they can use it in
a way compliant with such regulations.
Benchmarking: It takes 0.00114 milliseconds to call getEnv
"GIT_ANNEX_VECTOR_CLOCK" when that env var is not set. So, 100 thousand log
files can be written with an added overhead of only 0.114 seconds. That
should be by far swamped by the actual overhead of writing the log files
and making the commit containing them.
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fsck already special-cased dead keys to make --all not report errors with
them, and it makes sense to also expand that to whereis. I think it makes
sense for dead keys to be skipped by all uses of --all, so mistakes can be
completely forgotten about and not come back to haunt us.
The speed impact of testing if the key is dead is negligible for fsck and
whereis, since they use the location log anyway and it gets cached.
This does slow down a few commands that support --all, in particular
metadata --all runs around 2x as slow. I don't think metadata
--all is often used though. It might slow down copy/move/mirror
--all and get --all.
log --all is not affected (does not use the normal --all machinery).
Dead keys will still be processed by --incomplete, --branch,
--failed, and --key. Although it would be unlikely for a dead key to
ave in incomplete or failed transfer. It seems to make perfect sense for
--branch to process keys on the branch, even if dead.
(fsck's special-casing of dead keys was left in, so if one of these options
causes a dead key to be fscked, there will be a nice message.)
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9c4650358c changed the Read instance for
Key.
I've checked all uses of that instance (by removing it and seeing what
breaks), and they're all limited to the webapp, except one.
That is GitAnnexDistribution's Read instance.
So, 9c4650358c would have broken upgrades
of git-annex from downloads.kitenet.net. Once the .info files there got
updated for a new release, old releases would have failed to parse them
and never upgraded.
To fix this, I found a way to make the .info files that contain
GitAnnexDistribution values be readable by the old version of git-annex.
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... to control the default behavior in all clones of a repository.
This includes a new Configurable data type, so the GitConfig type indicates
which values can be configured this way.
The implementation should be quite efficient; the config log is only read
once, and only when a Configurable value has not already been set by
git-config.
Indeed, it would be nice in the future to extend this, so that git-config
is itself only read on demand. Some commands may not need to look at the
git configuration at all.
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Turns out that Data.List.Utils.split is slow and makes a lot of
allocations. Here's a much simpler single character splitter that behaves
the same (even in wacky corner cases) while running in half the time and
75% the allocations.
As well as being an optimisation, this helps move toward eliminating use of
missingh.
(Data.List.Split.splitOn is nearly as slow as Data.List.Utils.split and
allocates even more.)
I have not benchmarked the effect on git-annex, but would not be surprised
to see some parsing of eg, large streams from git commands run twice as
fast, and possibly in less memory.
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Docs say vicfg can configure everything from git-annex branch,
so it ought to configure numcopies.
Note that commenting out existing numcopies does not unset it.
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ghc 8 added backtraces on uncaught errors. This is great, but git-annex was
using error in many places for a error message targeted at the user, in
some known problem case. A backtrace only confuses such a message, so omit it.
Notably, commands like git annex drop that failed due to eg, numcopies,
used to use error, so had a backtrace.
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This sped up git annex find --not --in web from 6.64s to 5.69s.
The optimised parser is probably more like 50% faster than the general one
it replaced.
Note that get --from foo --failed will get things that a previous get --from bar
tried and failed to get, etc. I considered making --failed only retry
transfers from the same remote, but it was easier, and seems more useful,
to not have the same remote requirement.
Noisy due to some refactoring into Types/
This fixes strange displays in some cases, including whereis showing
many duplicate locations, and showing more total copies than actually
exist.
It's unknown if that lead to data loss when eg, dropping. At the moment,
it seems unlikely it could, since the UUID with \r's appended is not the
same as a UUID without, and so no remote matches it.
It's also unknown if \r's can leak in on windows, perhaps when merging the
git-annex branch.
Implemented with no additional overhead of compares etc.
This is safe to do for presence logs because of their locality of change;
a given repo's presence logs are only ever changed in that repo, or in a
repo that has just been actively changing the content of that repo.
So, we don't need to worry about a split-brain situation where there'd
be disagreement about the location of a key in a repo. And so, it's ok to
not update the timestamp when that's the only change that would be made
due to logging presence info.
I want this as fast as possible, so it can be added to code paths without
slowing them down.
Avoid the set lookup, and rely on laziness,
drops runtime from 14.37 ns to 11.03 ns according to this criterion benchmark:
import Criterion.Main
import qualified Types.Difference as New
import qualified Types.DifferenceOld as Old
main :: IO ()
main = defaultMain
[ bgroup "hasDifference"
[ bench "new" $ whnf (New.hasDifference New.OneLevelObjectHash) new
, bench "old" $ whnf (Old.hasDifference Old.OneLevelObjectHash) old
]
]
where
s = "fromList [ObjectHashLower, OneLevelObjectHash, OneLevelBranchHash]"
new = New.readDifferences s
old = Old.readDifferences s
A little bit of added boilerplate, but I suppose it's worth it to not
need to worry about set lookup overhead. Note that adding more differences
would slow down the old implementation; the new implementation will run
the same speed.
A dead key is both not present at the location that thinks it has a copy,
and also is assumed to probably not be present anywhere else. Although
there may be lurking disconnected repos that somehow still have a copy.
Suprisingly few changes needed for this! This is because the presence log
code only really concerns itself with keys that are present, and dead keys
are not present.
Note that both the location and web log can be parsed as having a dead key.
I don't see any value to having keys listed as dead in the web log, but
since it doesn't change any behavior, there was no point in not parsing it.
The one exception is in Utility.Daemon. As long as a process only
daemonizes once, which seems reasonable, and as long as it avoids calling
checkDaemon once it's already running as a daemon, the fcntl locking
gotchas won't be a problem there.
Annex.LockFile has it's own separate lock pool layer, which has been
renamed to LockCache. This is a persistent cache of locks that persist
until closed.
This is not quite done; lockContent stil needs to be converted.
This is a little optimisation; avoid loading the info file for the
download of the current key when checking for other downloads.
The reversion it fixes is sorta strange.
a812d598ef broke checking for transfers
that were already in progress. Indeed, the transfer lock was not held
after getTransfers was called.
Why? I think it's magic in ghc's handling of getLock and setLock,
although it's hard to tell since those functions are almost entirely
undocumented as to their semantics.
Something, either the RTS (or maybe it's linux?) notices that the
same process has taken a lock and is now calling getLock on a FD attached
to the same file. So, it drops the lock.
So, this optimisation avoids that problematic behavior.
Useful for things like ipfs that don't use regular urls.
An external special remote can add a regular url to a key, and then
git-annex get will download it from the web. But for ipfs, we want to
instead tell git-annex that the uri uses OtherDownloader. Before this
change, the external special remote protocol lacked a way to do that.
I hope this doesn't impact speed much -- it does have to pull out a value
from Annex state every time it accesses the branch now.
The test case I dropped has never caught any problems that I can remember,
and would have been rather difficult to convert.
Eliminated complexity and future proofed. The most important change is that
all functions over Difference are now total; any Difference that can be
expressed should be handled. Avoids needs for sanity checking of inputs,
and version skew with the future.
Also, the difference.log now serializes a [Difference], not a Differences.
This saves space and keeps it simpler.
Note that [Difference] might contain conflicting differences (eg,
[Version5, Version6]. In this case, one of them needs to consistently win
over the others, probably based on Ord.
* init: Repository tuning parameters can now be passed when initializing a
repository for the first time. For details, see
http://git-annex.branchable.com/tuning/
* merge: Refuse to merge changes from a git-annex branch of a repo
that has been tuned in incompatable ways.
Reverts 965e106f24
Unfortunately, this caused breakage on Windows, and possibly elsewhere,
because parentDir and takeDirectory do not behave the same when there is a
trailing directory separator.
parentDir is less safe than takeDirectory, especially when working
with relative FilePaths. It's really only useful in loops that
want to terminate at /
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The url log could have an url for a key, while the location log thinks it's
not present in the web. In this case, addurl --file url would not do
anything. Fixed it to re-add the web as a location.
I don't know how this situation could arise, but I saw it in the wild in
the conference_proceedings repo, affecting key
URL-s17806003--http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2014/Wednesday/53-Building_Effective_Alliances_around_the_Trans-Pacific_Partnershi-c0505b631127ccc67e38e637344d988e
Investigating the presence log, it looked like that key
was originally listed as present in the web, then in commit
56abf9e9f3e691ed9d83513037d4019313321ca3 someone else's git-annex
set it and some other things to not present in the web. It would be
interesting to know what that user did, but I doubt I'll be able to find
out. All I can tell from this investigation is that the inconsistency was
not introduced when originally addurl-ing the url.
addurl behavior change: When downloading an url ending in .torrent,
it will download files from bittorrent, instead of the old behavior
of adding the torrent file to the repository.
Added Recommends on aria2 and bittornado | bittorrent.
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Added a Default instance for TrustLevel, and was able to use that to clear
up several other parts of the code too.
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Found these with:
git grep "^ " $(find -type f -name \*.hs) |grep -v ': where'
Unfortunately there is some inline hamlet that cannot use tabs for
indentation.
Also, Assistant/WebApp/Bootstrap3.hs is a copy of a module and so I'm
leaving it as-is.
This fixes all instances of " \t" in the code base. Most common case
seems to be after a "where" line; probably vim copied the two space layout
of that line.
Done as a background task while listening to episode 2 of the Type Theory
podcast.
* New annex.hardlink setting. Closes: #758593
* init: Automatically detect when a repository was cloned with --shared,
and set annex.hardlink=true, as well as marking the repository as
untrusted.
Had to reorganize Logs.Trust a bit to avoid a cycle between it and
Annex.Init.
Note that while before checkTransfer this called getLock with WriteLock,
getLockStatus's use of ReadLock will also notice any exclusive locks.
Since transfer info files are only locked exclusively, never shared,
there is no behavior change.
Also, fixes checkLocked to actually return Just False when the file
exists, but is not locked.
Removed old extensible-exceptions, only needed for very old ghc.
Made webdav use Utility.Exception, to work after some changes in DAV's
exception handling.
Removed Annex.Exception. Mostly this was trivial, but note that
tryAnnex is replaced with tryNonAsync and catchAnnex replaced with
catchNonAsync. In theory that could be a behavior change, since the former
caught all exceptions, and the latter don't catch async exceptions.
However, in practice, nothing in the Annex monad uses async exceptions.
Grepping for throwTo and killThread only find stuff in the assistant,
which does not seem related.
Command.Add.undo is changed to accept a SomeException, and things
that use it for rollback now catch non-async exceptions, rather than
only IOExceptions.
Slightly tricky as they are not normal UUIDBased logs, but are instead maps
from (uuid, chunksize) to chunkcount.
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When annex.genmetadata is set, metadata from the feed is added to files
that are imported from it.
Reused the same feedtitle and itemtitle, feedauthor, itemauthor, etc names
that are used in --template.
Also added title and author, which are the item title/author if available,
falling back to the feed title/author. These are more likely to be common
metadata fields.
(There is a small bit of dupication here, but once git gets
around to packing the object, it will compress it away.)
The itempubdate field is not included in the metadata as a string; instead
it is used to generate year and month fields, same as is done when adding
files with annex.genmetadata set.
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is responsible for ikiwiki generating nice feed metadata!
This avoids a potential slowdown when using lots of views.
I think that it makes sense for unused to ignore (local) view branches,
since these are by definition supposed to be views of an existing branch,
so looking at the branch should be sufficient (and if the view is out of
date and has files that have since been deleted from the branch, the user's
intent is not to preserve those from unused reaping).
Avoid stomping on existing group and preferred content settings
when enabling or combining with an already existing remote.
Two level fix. First, use defaultStandardGroup rather than
setStandardGroup, so if there is an existing configuration in the git-annex
branch, it's not overwritten.
To handle pre-existing ssh remotes (including gcrypt), a second level is
needed, because before syncing with the remote, it's configuration won't be
available locally. (And syncing could take a long time.) So, in this case,
keep track of whether the remote is being created or enabled, and only set
configs when creating it.
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This includes checking when dropping files that any required content
configuration is satisfied. However, it does not yet include an active
check on the required content; the location log is trusted when checking
the required content expression.
Motivation: Hook scripts for nautilus or other file managers
need to provide the user with feedback that a file is being downloaded.
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Note that this is a nearly entirely free feature. The data was already
stored in the metadata log in an easily accessible way, and already was
parsed to a time when parsing the log. The generation of the metadata
fields may even be done lazily, although probably not entirely (the map
has to be evaulated to when queried).
For example "standard or (include=otherdir/*)" or even "not standard"
Note that the implementation avoids any potential for loops (if a
standard preferred content expression itself mentioned standard).
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Note that negated globs are not supported. Would have complicated the code
to add them, without changing the data type serialization in a
non-backwards-compatable way.
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This allows eg, putting .git/annex/tmp on a ram disk, if the disk IO
of temp object files is too annoying (and if you don't want to keep
partially transferred objects across reboots).
.git/annex/misctmp must be on the same filesystem as the git work tree,
since files are moved to there in a way that will not work cross-device,
as well as symlinked into there.
I first wanted to put the tmp objects in .git/annex/objects/tmp, but
that would pose transition problems on upgrade when partially transferred
objects existed.
git annex info does not currently show the size of .git/annex/misctemp,
since it should stay small. It would also be ok to make something clean it
out, periodically.
Performance impact: When adding a large tree of new files, this needs
to do some git cat-file queries to check if any of the files already
existed and might need a metadata copy. I tried a benchmark in a copy
of my sound repository (so there was already a significant git tree
to check against.
Adding 10000 small files, with a cold cache:
before: 1m48.539s
after: 1m52.791s
So, impact is 0.0004 seconds per file added. Which seems acceptable, so did
not add some kind of configuration to enable/disable this.
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While writing this documentation, I realized that there needed to be a way
to stay in a view like tag=* while adding a filter like tag=work that
applies to the same field.
So, there are really two ways a view can be refined. It can have a new
"field=explicitvalue" filter added to it, which does not change the
"shape" of the view, but narrows the files it shows.
Or, it can have a new view added, which adds another level of
subdirectories.
So, added a vfilter command, which takes explicit values to add to the
filter, and rejects changes that would change the shape of the view.
And, made vadd only accept changes that change the shape of the view.
And, changed the View data type slightly; now components that can match
multiple metadata values can be visible, or not visible.
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So the user can now switch to a view and then move files around within it
to manage metadata. For example, moving a file into a new directory
when in the tags=* view adds a tag to it.
Implementation is fairly efficient. One diff-index, which is no more
expensive than the first stage of a git commit, followed by possibly
some cat-file --batch traffic to find the key (when deleting a file).
Very similar to what's done in direct mode when committing. And like
direct mode when updating the WC after a merge, it has to buffer the
diff-tree values in order to make 2 passes over them.
When not in a view, pre-commit now does one extra git symbolic-ref,
which is tiny overhead.
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Removed instance, got it all to build using fromRef. (With a few things
that really need to show something using a ref for debugging stubbed out.)
Then added back Read instance, and made Logs.View use it for serialization.
This changes the view log format.
(And a vpop command, which is still a bit buggy.)
Still need to do vadd and vrm, though this also adds their documentation.
Currently not very happy with the view log data serialization. I had to
lose the TDFA regexps temporarily, so I can have Read/Show instances of
View. I expect the view log format will change in some incompatable way
later, probably adding last known refs for the parent branch to View
or something like that.
Anyway, it basically works, although it's a bit slow looking up the
metadata. The actual git branch construction is about as fast as it can be
using the current git plumbing.
This commit was sponsored by Peter Hogg.
