This is to support, eg a borg repo as a special remote, which is
populated not by running git-annex commands, but by using borg. Then
git-annex sync lists the content of the remote, learns which files are
annex objects, and treats those as present in the remote.
So, most of the import machinery is reused, to a new purpose. While
normally importtree maintains a remote tracking branch, this does not,
because the files stored in the remote are annex object files, not
user-visible filenames. But, internally, a git tree is still generated,
of the files on the remote that are annex objects. This tree is used
by retrieveExportWithContentIdentifier, etc. As with other import/export
remotes, that the tree is recorded in the export log, and gets grafted
into the git-annex branch.
importKey changed to be able to return Nothing, to indicate when an
ImportLocation is not an annex object and so should be skipped from
being included in the tree.
It did not seem to make sense to have git-annex import do this, since
from the user's perspective, it's not like other imports. So only
git-annex sync does it.
Note that, git-annex sync does not yet download objects from such
remotes that are preferred content. importKeys is run with
content downloading disabled, to avoid getting the content of all
objects. Perhaps what's needed is for seekSyncContent to be run with these
remotes, but I don't know if it will just work (in particular, it needs
to avoid trying to transfer objects to them), so I skipped that for now.
(Untested and unused as of yet.)
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Done on unix, could not implement it on windows quite.
The signal library gets part of the way needed for windows.
But I had to open https://github.com/pmlodawski/signal/issues/1 because
it lacks raiseSignal.
Also, I don't know what the equivilant of getProcessGroupIDOf is on
windows. And System.Process does not provide a way to send any signal to
a process group except for SIGINT.
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It's not concurrent-output safe, and doesn't support
--json-error-messages.
Using Annex.makeRunner is a bit scary, because what if it's run in a
different thread from an active annex action? Normally the same Annex
state is not used concurrently in several threads, and it's not designed
to be fully concurrency safe. (Annex.Concurrent exists to deal with
that.) I think it will be ok in these simple cases though. Eg,
when buffering a warning message to json, Annex.changeState is used,
and it modifies the MVar in a concurrency safe way.
The only warningIO remaining is not a problem.
I'm sure this used to work, but somewhere along the line something or
things (getCost and getAvailability I think, probably others)
started catching the exception and not displaying it. So, show warnings.
TVars were not updated atomically, which was ok when each thread got its
own External that was the only thing using these TVars. But, with the
async extension, several External instances can share the same var, so
it needs to be a TMVar to avoid read/write conflicts.
In particular, this makes PREPARE only be sent once.
Receive loop looks right. Still need the send loop.
And, a complication is that some messages git-annex
sends need to be wrapped in REPLY_ASYNC, while others
do not. So will probably need to split externalSend
into two.
Idea is for ASYNC extension, it will instead contain methods that communicate
with the thread that handles all communication with the external process.
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.)
This makes the creds get saved, since only things recorded there will be
saved.
IIRC, unparsedRemoteConfig was not originally available when I
implemented this; now that it is things get a bit simpler.
More could probably be simplified, is externalConfigChanges needed at
all?
This does not entirely fix the bugs though, because creds are only
embedded when embedcreds=yes, but not when encryption=pubkey is used
without embedcreds=yes.
Since an external process can be in the middle of some operation when an
async exception is received, it has to be shut down then. Using
cleanupProcess will close its IO handles and send it a SIGTERM.
If a special remote choses to catch SIGTERM, it's fine for it to do some
cleanup then, but until it finishes, git-annex will be blocked waiting
for it. If a special remote blocked SIGTERM, it would cause a hang.
Mentioned in docs.
Also, in passing, fixed a FD leak, it was not closing the error handle
when shutting down the external. In practice that didn't matter before because
it was only run when git-annex was itself shutting down, but now that it
can run on exception, it would have been a problem.
Finishes the transition to make remote methods throw exceptions, rather
than silently hide them.
A bit on the fence about this one, because when renameExport fails,
it falls back to deleting instead, and so does the user care why it failed?
However, it did let me clean up several places in the code.
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Part of ongoing transition to make remote methods
throw exceptions, rather than silently hide them.
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Part of ongoing transition to make remote methods
throw exceptions, rather than silently hide them.
This commit was sponsored by Graham Spencer on Patreon.
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.
That had almost no benefit at all, and complicated things quite a lot.
What I proably wanted this to be was something like ResourceT, but it
was not. The few remotes that actually need some preparation done only
once and reused used a MVar and not Preparer.
readonly=true is used to make an external special remote that does not
need the external program to be installed. It was stored in the
remote.log by default, and so every time it was specified in an
enableremote or initremote, whatever value was used became the new
default for subsequent enableremotes of that remote.
That was surprising, and I consider it to be a bug.
It does not make much sense to pass it to initremote because then how
would you populate that remote with anything? You would have to
enableremote elsewhere, and store content there. I'm assuming nobody
used it that way.
Someone might rely on passing it to enableremote once, and then that
being inherited in other clones. But that is not how it's documented to
be used. It is barely documented in git-annex at all, only in the
external special remote protocol, and the documentation there says to
"Document that this external special remote can be used in readonly
mode." (by the user of it passing readonly=true to enableremote). The
one external special remote that I know of that does document that is
<https://github.com/bgilbert/gcsannex> (the one that motivated adding
it). That one's docs do say to pass it to enableremote.
So, it seemed safe to make this behavior change. If someone was in fact
relying on one of those behaviors, all their current repos will still
work as they configured them (although they will need to deal
with the related change in 9f3c2dfeda).
In new clones, they will find enableremote fails, complaining the
external program is not in path. An easy enough problem to recover from.
* whereis: If a remote fails to report on urls where a key
is located, display a warning, rather than giving up and not displaying
any information.
* When external special remotes fail but neglect to provide an error
message, say what request failed, which is better than displaying an
empty error message to the user.
Fix serious regression in gcrypt and encrypted git-lfs remotes.
Since version 7.20200202.7, git-annex incorrectly stored content
on those remotes without encrypting it.
Problem was, Remote.Git enumerates all git remotes, including git-lfs
and gcrypt. It then dispatches to those. So, Remote.List used the
RemoteConfigParser from Remote.Git, instead of from git-lfs or gcrypt,
and that parser does not know about encryption fields, so did not
include them in the ParsedRemoteConfig. (Also didn't include other
fields specific to those remotes, perhaps chunking etc also didn't
get through.)
To fix, had to move RemoteConfig parsing down into the generate methods
of each remote, rather than doing it in Remote.List.
And a consequence of that was that ParsedRemoteConfig had to change to
include the RemoteConfig that got parsed, so that testremote can
generate a new remote based on an existing remote.
(I would have rather fixed this just inside Remote.Git, but that was not
practical, at least not w/o re-doing work that Remote.List already did.
Big ugly mostly mechanical patch seemed preferable to making git-annex
slower.)
remoteAnnexConfig will avoid bugs like
a3a674d15b
Use now more generic remoteConfig in a couple places that built
non-annex config settings manually before.
using git credential to get the password
One thing this doesn't do is wrap the password prompting inside the prompt
action. So with -J, the output can be a bit garbled.
Avoids the external program being started just to use LISTCONFIGS on an
already accepted config.
So initremote/enableremote will still run the external program an extra
time to use LISTCONFIGS, but everything that uses the special remote after
it's initialized will not any longer.
Special remote programs that use GETCONFIG/SETCONFIG are recommended
to implement it.
The description is not yet used, but will be useful later when adding a way
to make initremote list all accepted configs.
configParser now takes a RemoteConfig parameter. Normally, that's not
needed, because configParser returns a parter, it does not parse it
itself. But, it's needed to look at externaltype and work out what
external remote program to run for LISTCONFIGS.
Note that, while externalUUID is changed to a Maybe UUID, checkExportSupported
used to use NoUUID. The code that now checks for Nothing used to behave
in some undefined way if the external program made requests that
triggered it.
Also, note that in externalSetup, once it generates external,
it parses the RemoteConfig strictly. That generates a
ParsedRemoteConfig, which is thrown away. The reason it's ok to throw
that away, is that, if the strict parse succeeded, the result must be
the same as the earlier, lenient parse.
initremote of an external special remote now runs the program three
times. First for LISTCONFIGS, then EXPORTSUPPORTED, and again
LISTCONFIGS+INITREMOTE. It would not be hard to eliminate at least
one of those, and it should be possible to only run the program once.
Not yet added anything to the protocol to get a list of remote config
fields; any fields will be accepted and are available for the external
remote to use as before.
There is one minor behavior change.. Before, GETCONFIG could be passed a
field such as type, externaltype, encryption, etc, and would get the
value of that. Now, GETCONFIG only works on fields that don't have a
defined meaning to git-annex, so are passed through to the external
remote. This seems unlikely to affect any external special remotes in
practice.
This is a first step toward that goal, using the ProposedAccepted type
in RemoteConfig lets initremote/enableremote reject bad parameters that
were passed in a remote's configuration, while avoiding enableremote
rejecting bad parameters that have already been stored in remote.log
This does not eliminate every place where a remote config is parsed and a
default value is used if the parse false. But, I did fix several
things that expected foo=yes/no and so confusingly accepted foo=true but
treated it like foo=no. There are still some fields that are parsed with
yesNo but not not checked when initializing a remote, and there are other
fields that are parsed in other ways and not checked when initializing a
remote.
This also lays groundwork for rejecting unknown/typoed config keys.
* annex.addunlocked can be set to an expression with the same format used by
annex.largefiles, in case you want to default to unlocking some files but
not others.
* annex.addunlocked can be configured by git-annex config.
Added a git-annex-matching-expression man page, broken out from
tips/largefiles.
A tricky consequence of this is that git-annex add --relaxed
honors annex.addunlocked, but an expression might want to know the size
or content of an url, which it's not going to download. I decided it was
better not to fail, and just dummy up some plausible data in that case.
Performance impact should be negligible. The global config is already
loaded for annex.largefiles. The expression only has to be parsed once,
and in the simple true/false case, it should not do any additional work
matching it.
git-annex find is now RawFilePath end to end, no string conversions.
So is git-annex get when it does not need to get anything.
So this is a major milestone on optimisation.
Benchmarks indicate around 30% speedup in both commands.
Probably many other performance improvements. All or nearly all places
where a file is statted use RawFilePath now.
