When constructing views, metadata is available about the location of the
file in the view's reference branch. Allows incorporating parts of the
directory hierarchy in a view.
For example `git annex view tag=* podcasts/=*` makes a view in the form
tag/showname.
Performance impact: I benchmarked git annex view tag=* in the conference
proceedings repo to take 6.459s before this change, and 6.544s after.
FWIW, I considered making the syntax for this be podcasts/*, which might
be easier for the user to learn. However, I think it's not as good:
* The user has to then juggle two different syntaxes, and podcasts/* will
be expanded by the shell so they also need to quote it, while podcasts/=*
is unlikely to be expanded by the shell.
* It would allow for things like podcasts/*/* and *.mp3 which do not
map well into views.
This commit was sponsored by Aurélien Pinceaux.
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.
This commit was sponsored by Andrew Eskridge.
I was careful to write the code so its clear how laziness memoizes it,
although it's likely that much less explicit currying would have had
the same effect. Verified that the memoization works using a Debug.Trace.
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.
Promosing work toward metadata driven filter branches. A few methods
to construct them are stubbed out; all the data types and pure code
seems good.
This commit was sponsored by Walter Somerville.
Adds metadata log, and command.
Note that unsetting field values seems to currently be broken.
And in general this has had all of 2 minutes worth of testing.
This commit was sponsored by Julien Lefrique.
ef24751922 described a bug moving between
remotes in direct mode; I can no longer reproduce it with this strange
workaround removed. Also test suite still passes. Hope the broken code just
got fixed in the meantime.
Potentially fixes some FD leak if an action on an opened file handle fails
for some reason. There have been some hard to reproduce reports of
git-annex leaking FDs, and this may solve them.
Seems that locking of annexed objects when they're being dropped was broken
in direct mode:
* When taking the lock before dropping, it created the .git/annex/objects
file, as an empty file. It seems that the dropping code deleted that,
but that is not right, and for all I know could in some situation cause
a corrupted object to leak out.
* When the lock was checked, it actually tried to open each direct mode
file, and checked if it was locked. Not the same lock used above, and
could also fail if some consumer of the file locked it.
Fixed this, and added windows support by switching direct mode to lock a
.lck file.
Several places assumed this would not happen, and when the AssociatedFile
was Nothing, did nothing.
As part of this, preferred content checks pass the Key around.
Note that checkMatcher is sometimes now called with Just Key and Just File.
It currently constructs a FileMatcher, ignoring the Key. However, if it
constructed a FileKeyMatcher, which contained both, then it might be
possible to speed up parts of Limit, which currently call the somewhat
expensive lookupFileKey to get the Key.
I have not made this optimisation yet, because I am not sure if the key is
always the same. Will need some significant checking to satisfy myself
that's the case..
Checking .gitattributes adds a full minute to a git annex find looking for
files that don't have enough copies. 2:25 increasts to 3:27. I feel this is
too much of a slowdown to justify making it the default. So, exposed two
versions of the preferred content expression, a slow one and a fast but
approximate one.
I'm using the approximate one in the default preferred content expressions
to avoid slowing down the assistant.
* Add numcopiesneeded preferred content expression.
* Client, transfer, incremental backup, and archive repositories
now want to get content that does not yet have enough copies.
This means the asssistant will make copies of files that don't yet
meet the configured numcopies, even to places that would not normally want
the file.
For example, if numcopies is 4, and there are 2 client repos and
2 transfer repos, and 2 removable backup drives, the file will be sent
to both transfer repos in order to make 4 copies. Once a removable drive
get a copy of the file, it will be dropped from one transfer repo or the
other (but not both).
Another example, numcopies is 3 and there is a client that has a backup
removable drive and two small archive repos. Normally once one of the small
archives has a file, it will not be put into the other one. But, to satisfy
numcopies, the assistant will duplicate it into the other small archive
too, if the backup repo is not available to receive the file.
I notice that these examples are fairly unlikely setups .. the old behavior
was not too bad, but it's nice to finally have it really correct.
.. Almost. I have skipped checking the annex.numcopies .gitattributes
out of fear it will be too slow.
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* numcopies: New command, sets global numcopies value that is seen by all
clones of a repository.
* The annex.numcopies git config setting is deprecated. Once the numcopies
command is used to set the global number of copies, any annex.numcopies
git configs will be ignored.
* assistant: Make the prefs page set the global numcopies.
This global numcopies setting is needed to let preferred content
expressions operate on numcopies.
It's also convenient, because typically if you want git-annex to preserve N
copies of files in a repo, you want it to do that no matter which repo it's
running in. Making it global avoids needing to warn the user about gotchas
involving inconsistent annex.numcopies settings.
(See changes to doc/numcopies.mdwn.)
Added a new variety of git-annex branch log file, that holds only 1 value.
Will probably be useful for other stuff later.
This commit was sponsored by Nicolas Pouillard.
I've been disliking how the command seek actions were written for some
time, with their inversion of control and ugly workarounds.
The last straw to fix it was sync --content, which didn't fit the
Annex [CommandStart] interface well at all. I have not yet made it take
advantage of the changed interface though.
The crucial change, and probably why I didn't do it this way from the
beginning, is to make each CommandStart action be run with exceptions
caught, and if it fails, increment a failure counter in annex state.
So I finally remove the very first code I wrote for git-annex, which
was before I had exception handling in the Annex monad, and so ran outside
that monad, passing state explicitly as it ran each CommandStart action.
This was a real slog from 1 to 5 am.
Test suite passes.
Memory usage is lower than before, sometimes by a couple of megabytes, and
remains constant, even when running in a large repo, and even when
repeatedly failing and incrementing the error counter. So no accidental
laziness space leaks.
Wall clock speed is identical, even in large repos.
This commit was sponsored by an anonymous bitcoiner.
Similar to the assistant, this honors any configured preferred content
expressions.
I am not entirely happpy with the implementation. It would be nicer if
the seek function returned a list of actions which included the individual
file gets and copies and drops, rather than the current list of calls to
syncContent. This would allow getting rid of the somewhat reundant display
of "sync file [ok|failed]" after the get/put display.
But, do that, withFilesInGit would need to somehow be able to construct
such a mixed action list. And it would be less efficient than the current
implementation, which is able to reuse several values between eg get and
drop.
Note that currently this does not try to satisfy numcopies when
getting/putting files (numcopies are of course checked when dropping
files!) This makes it like the assistant, and unlike get --auto
and copy --auto, which do duplicate files when numcopies is not yet
satisfied. I don't know if this is the right decision; it only seemed to
make sense to have this parallel the assistant as far as possible to start
with, since I know the assistant works.
This commit was sponsored by Øyvind Andersen Holm.
This adds a http HEAD before the download is done. That was already the
case when the assistant was running, and it seems worth it to avoid filling
up the whole disk, like happened to my server today.
This allows a remote to store a piece of arbitrary state associated with a
key. This is needed to support Tahoe, where the file-cap is calculated from
the data stored in it, and used to retrieve a key later. Glacier also would
be much improved by using this.
GETSTATE and SETSTATE are added to the external special remote protocol.
Note that the state is left as-is even when a key is removed from a remote.
It's up to the remote to decide when it wants to clear the state.
The remote state log, $KEY.log.rmt, is a UUID-based log. However,
rather than using the old UUID-based log format, I created a new variant
of that format. The new varient is more space efficient (since it lacks the
"timestamp=" hack, and easier to parse (and the parser doesn't mess with
whitespace in the value), and avoids compatability cruft in the old one.
This seemed worth cleaning up for these new files, since there could be a
lot of them, while before UUID-based logs were only used for a few log
files at the top of the git-annex branch. The transition code has also
been updated to handle these new UUID-based logs.
This commit was sponsored by Daniel Hofer.
The assistant's commit code also always avoids git commit, for simplicity.
Indirect mode sync still does a git commit -a to catch unstaged changes.
Note that this means that direct mode sync no longer runs the pre-commit
hook or any other hooks git commit might call. The git annex pre-commit
hook action for direct mode is however explicitly run. (The assistant
already ran git commit with hooks disabled, so no change there.)
0980f3dae6 broke support for local remotes
from direct mode repos, because the relative path was taken to be from the
gitdir, rather than from the work tree.
This works around horribleness in the Mavericks cpp, which falls over on
the #if when configure is running. Moving it avoids the file being built at
that point.
But it's also a location that makes sense..
Because that allowed writing to symlinks of files that are not present,
which followed the link and put bad content in an object location.
fsck: Fix up .git/annex/object directory permissions.
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This works for both direct and indirect mode.
It may need some performance tuning.
Note that unlike git status, it only shows the status of the work tree, not
the status of the index. So only one status letter, not two .. and since
files that have been added and not yet committed do not differ between the
work tree and the index, they are not shown. Might want to add display of
the index vs the last commit eventually.
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contribution as been going up lately! ;)
Now that direct mode sets core.bare=true, git's normal prohibition about
pushing into the currently checked out branch doesn't work.
A simple fix for this would be an update hook which blocks the pushes..
but git hooks must be executable, and git-annex needs to be usable on eg,
FAT, which lacks x bits.
Instead, enabling direct mode switches the branch (eg master) to a special
purpose branch (eg annex/direct/master). This branch is not pushed when
syncing; instead any changes that git annex sync commits get written to
master, and it's pushed (along with synced/master) to the remote.
Note that initialization has been changed to always call setDirect,
even if it's just setDirect False for indirect mode. This is needed because
if the user has just cloned a direct mode repo, that nothing has synced
with before, it may have no master branch, and only a annex/direct/master.
Resulting in that branch being checked out locally too. Calling setDirect False
for indirect mode moves back out of this branch, to a new master branch,
and ensures that a manual "git push" doesn't push changes directly to
the annex/direct/master of the remote. (It's possible that the user
makes a commit w/o using git-annex and pushes it, but nothing I can do
about that really.)
This commit was sponsored by Jonathan Harrington.
This guarantees that stopping an existing socket never fails.
This might be the route out of the mess of needing to worry about socket
lengths in general. However, it would need quite a lot of refactoring
to make every place in git-annex that runs ssh run it with a cwd that was
determined by the location of its connection caching socket. If this
wasn't already such a mess, I'd consider even the thought of that API a bad
idea..
The control socket path passed to ssh needs to be 17 characters shorter
than the maximum unix domain socket length, because ssh appends stuff to it
to make a temporary filename. Closes: #725512
Also, take the shorter of the relative and the absolute paths to the
socket. Typically the relative path will be a lot shorter (unless
deep inside a subdirectory of the repository), and so using it will
avoid flirting with the maximum safe socket lenghts in more situations,
and so lead to less breakage if all my attempts at fixing this are
still buggy.
My implementation does not guard against double locking of the journal. But
it does ensure that the journal is always locked when operated on, by using
a type that is only produced by lockJournal, and which is required as a
parameter of all functions that operate on the journal.
Note that I had to add the fooStale functions for cases where it does not
make sense to lock the journal when querying it. I was more concerned about
ensuring that anything that modifies the journal is locked.
setJournalFile's implementation ensures that any query of the journal will
get one value or the other atomically, even if the journal is being changed
at the time.
This may not strictly be needed -- the transition code bypasses the
journal. However, this ensures that the git-annex branch is only
committed with the journal locked. This will allow for further
improvements.
Overridable with --user-agent option.
Not yet done for S3 or WebDAV due to limitations of libraries used --
nether allows a user-agent header to be specified.
This commit sponsored by Michael Zehrer.
Since 006cf7976f was incomplete, not being
able to get the right mode of the file when the index differs from HEAD,
this is a final workaround. Only buffering the start of the file
in this case avoids leaking memory.
This does not prevent git-cat-file being asked to output the whole file,
which needs to be consumed, and can be slow. But this only happens in a
rare edge case.
Done using a mode witness, which ensures it's fixed everywhere.
Fixing catFileKey was a bear, because git cat-file does not provide a
nice way to query for the mode of a file and there is no other efficient
way to do it. Oh, for libgit2..
Note that I am looking at tree objects from HEAD, rather than the index.
Because I cat-file cannot show a tree object for the index.
So this fix is technically incomplete. The only cases where it matters
are:
1. A new large file has been directly staged in git, but not committed.
2. A file that was committed to HEAD as a symlink has been staged
directly in the index.
This could be fixed a lot better using libgit2.
The second commit had some bad refs which resulted in the race detection
code running. But that commit was unnecessary anyway, it only was there to
merge in the other refs.
Wrote nice pure transition calculator, and ugly code to stage its results
into the git-annex branch. Also had to split up several Log modules
that Annex.Branch needed to use, but that themselves used Annex.Branch.
The transition calculator is limited to looking at and changing one file at
a time. While this made the implementation relatively easy, it precludes
transitions that do stuff like deleting old url log files for keys that are
being removed because they are no longer present anywhere.
Works, more or less. --dead is not implemented, and so far a new branch
is made, but keys no longer present anywhere are not scrubbed.
git annex sync fails to push the synced/git-annex branch after a forget,
because it's not a fast-forward of the existing synced branch. Could be
fixed by making git-annex sync use assistant-style sync branches.
When quvi is installed, git-annex addurl automatically uses it to detect
when an page is a video, and downloads the video file.
web special remote: Also support using quvi, for getting files,
or checking if files exist in the web.
This commit was sponsored by Mark Hepburn. Thanks!
Requires git 1.8.4 or newer. When it's installed, a background
git check-ignore process is run, and used to efficiently check ignores
whenever a new file is added.
Thanks to Adam Spiers, for getting the necessary support into git for this.
A complication is what to do about files that are gitignored but have
been checked into git anyway. git commands assume the ignore has been
overridden in this case, and not need any more overriding to commit a
changed version.
However, for the assistant to do the same, it would have to run git ls-files
to check if the ignored file is in git. This is somewhat expensive. Or it
could use the running git-cat-file process to query the file that way,
but that requires transferring the whole file content over a pipe, so it
can be quite expensive too, for files that are not git-annex
symlinks.
Now imagine if the user knows that a file or directory tree will be getting
frequent changes, and doesn't want the assistant to sync it, so gitignores
it. The assistant could overload the system with repeated ls-files checks!
So, I've decided that the assistant will not automatically commit changes
to files that are gitignored. This is a tradeoff. Hopefully it won't be a
problem to adjust .gitignore settings to not ignore files you want the
assistant to autocommit, or to manually git annex add files that are listed
in .gitignore.
(This could be revisited if git-annex gets access to an interface to check
the content of the index w/o forking a git command. This could be libgit2,
or perhaps a separate git cat-file --batch-check process, so it wouldn't
need to ship over the whole file content.)
This commit was sponsored by Francois Marier. Thanks!
Started with a problem when running addurl on a really long url,
because the whole url is munged into the filename. Ended up doing
a fairly extensive review for places where filenames could get too large,
although it's hard to say I'm not missed any..
Backend.Url had a 128 character limit, which is fine when the limit is 255,
but not if it's a lot shorter on some systems. So check the pathconf()
limit. Note that this could result in fromUrl creating different keys
for the same url, if run on systems with different limits. I don't see
this is likely to cause any problems. That can already happen when using
addurl --fast, or if the content of an url changes.
Both Command.AddUrl and Backend.Url assumed that urls don't contain a
lot of multi-byte unicode, and would fail to truncate an url that did
properly.
A few places use a filename as the template to make a temp file.
While that's nice in that the temp file name can be easily related back to
the original filename, it could lead to `git annex add` failing to add a
filename that was at or close to the maximum length.
Note that in Command.Add.lockdown, the template is still derived from the
filename, just with enough space left to turn it into a temp file.
This is an important optimisation, because the assistant may lock down
a bunch of files all at once, and using the same template for all of them
would cause openTempFile to iterate through the same set of names,
looking for an unused temp file. I'm not very happy with the relatedTemplate
hack, but it avoids that slowdown.
Backend.WORM does not limit the filename stored in the key.
I have not tried to change that; so git annex add will fail on really long
filenames when using the WORM backend. It seems better to preserve the
invariant that a WORM key always contains the complete filename, since
the filename is the only unique material in the key, other than mtime and
size. Since nobody has complained about add failing (I think I saw it
once?) on WORM, probably it's ok, or nobody but me uses it.
There may be compatability problems if using git annex addurl --fast
or the WORM backend on a system with the 255 limit and then trying to use
that repo in a system with a smaller limit. I have not tried to deal with
those.
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This is ok to do now that the socket filename never needs to be mapped back
to a hostname.
Short hostnames will still appear in the clear, which is less obfuscated.
So this cannot possibly make ssh connection caching fail for a hostname it
used to work for.
Turns out that with -O stop -S socketfile, ssh does not need the real
hostname, or port to be specificed. This is because it simply talks to the
ssh behind the socket and tells it to stop. So, can eliminate the
conversion back from a socketfile to host and port. Which will allow using
shorter filenames for sockets in the future.
If the file is > 8192 bytes, it's certianly not a symlink file.
And if it contains nuls or newlines or whitespace, it's certianly
not a link to annexed content. But it might be a tarball containing
a git-annex repo.
This hack is only needed on FAT filesystems, so there's no point in doing
it the rest of the time. And it's possible for there to be a false
positive, so it's best to avoid the hack when possible.
Test suite on windows failed running git annex init in a bare clone of an
annexed repo. The annex directory didn't exist when it tried to write the
inode sentinal file.
Yeah, that didn't actually work. Got error messages like it couldn't read
from the control socket, so probably ssh doesn't really support that on
Windows, at least the cygwin ssh build I'm using.
On Windows, that means the file could still be open when later code wants
to delete it, which fails. Since we're only reading 8k anyway, just read
it, strictly. However, avoid reading the whole file strictly, so no
getContentsStrict here.
If the cleanup of a single file fails for some reason, continue
to clean up other files.
This could happen because of a race. The merge pulls in a change to a file,
which gets changed locally at the same time.
Made fromDirect check that a file in the tree has good content (and is not
a broken symlink either) before copying it to another file that has the
same key.
Made replaceFile clean up the temp file if the action that creates it, or
the file replacement action fails.
This was also tripped by the test suite's automatic conflict resolution
test. Which also shows BTW that an unnecessary copy of content is done
sometimes when merging in direct mode. Not going to try to speed that up
now.
This bug was turned up by the test suite, running fsck in direct mode.
A repository was cloned, was put into direct mode, was fscked, and fsck
incorrectly said that no copy existed of a file, that was actually present
in origin.
This turned out to occur because fsck first did a Annex.Branch.change,
recording that it did not locally have the file. That was recorded in the
journal. Since neither the git annex direct not the fsck had yet needed to
read any info from the branch, but had only made changes to it, the
origin/git-annex branch was not yet merged in. So the journal got a
location log entry written to it, but this did not include
the location log info for the origin. When fsck then did a
Annex.Branch.get, it trusted the journal was cosnsitent, and returned it,
again w/o merging from origin/git-annex. This latter behavior is the
actual bug.
Refer to commit e9bfa8eaed for the thinking
behind it being ok to make a change to a file on the branch, without
first merging the branch. That thinking still stands. However, it means
that files in the journal cannot be trusted to be consistent if the branch
has not been merged. So, to fix, just enure the branch gets merged, even
when reading from the journal.
In tests, this does not seem to cause any extra merging. Except, of course,
in the one case described above. But git annex add, etc, are able to make
changes w/o first merging the branch.
The bug was in movein, which just replaceFile'd the file with a symlink,
even if it already had the desired content, before trying to pull the
content out of the annex and replace the symlink with it.
That was ok-ish for non conflicted merges, where if the file existed it would
be an old version of the content. But for conflicted merges, the automatic
merge resolver has already run, and will have already put the desired
content into the file for the local variant.
Also, made removeDirect not trust that the associated files map is correct.
Only if it can verify that another file has the content will it not move it
into .git/annex/objects.
As seen in this bug report, the lifted exception handling using the StateT
monad throws away state changes when an action throws an exception.
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/git_annex_fork_bombs_on_gpg_file/
.. Which can result in cached values being redundantly calculated, or other
possibly worse bugs when the annex state gets out of sync with reality.
This switches from a StateT AnnexState to a ReaderT (MVar AnnexState).
All changes to the state go via the MVar. So when an Annex action is
running inside an exception handler, and it makes some changes, they
immediately go into affect in the MVar. If it then throws an exception
(or even crashes its thread!), the state changes are still in effect.
The MonadCatchIO-transformers change is actually only incidental.
I could have kept on using lifted-base for the exception handling.
However, I'd have needed to write a new instance of MonadBaseControl
for the new monad.. and I didn't write the old instance.. I begged Bas
and he kindly sent it to me. Happily, MonadCatchIO-transformers is
able to derive a MonadCatchIO instance for my monad.
This is a deep level change. It passes the test suite! What could it break?
Well.. The most likely breakage would be to code that runs an Annex action
in an exception handler, and *wants* state changes to be thrown away.
Perhaps the state changes leaves the state inconsistent, or wrong. Since
there are relatively few places in git-annex that catch exceptions in the
Annex monad, and the AnnexState is generally just used to cache calculated
data, this is unlikely to be a problem.
Oh yeah, this change also makes Assistant.Types.ThreadedMonad a bit
redundant. It's now entirely possible to run concurrent Annex actions in
different threads, all sharing access to the same state! The ThreadedMonad
just adds some extra work on top of that, with its own MVar, and avoids
such actions possibly stepping on one-another's toes. I have not gotten
rid of it, but might try that later. Being able to run concurrent Annex
actions would simplify parts of the Assistant code.
Before, if a direct mode repo had one or more associated files that
were modifed, moving the object into it would overwrite the associated
files with the pristine object.
Now, modified associated files are left unchanged. To ensure that,
when an object is moved into a direct mode repo, it's not thrown away,
it gets stored in indirect mode.
This fixes a bug with git annex add in direct mode. If some files already
existed in the tree pointing at the same key as a file that was just added,
and their content was not present, add neglected to copy the content to
those files.
I also changed the behavior of moveAnnex slightly: When content is moved
into the annex in direct mode, it does not overwrite any content already
present in direct mode files. That content may be modified after all.
On Windows with Cygwin, checking out a git-annex repo will create symlinks
on disk, so we need to always try to read the symlink, even when
core.symlinks says they're not supported.
Seems that Windows doesn't allow deleting a file that the same process has open.
Here the inode cache file was read and a the value from it gets used later.
But due to laziness, the old file is still open when it gets deleted. Adding
strictness avoids this problem. Of course, the file is small, so it's no
problem to read it all strictly, so this is probably an improvement even
outside of Windows.
That's needed in files used to build the configure program.
For the other files, I'm keeping my __WINDOWS__ define, as I find that much easier to type.
I may search and replace it to use the mingw32_HOST_OS thing later.
It's possible for files in indirect mode to have a direct mode mapping
file. Probably from when they were in direct mode. In this case,
toDirectGen tried to copy the content from the direct mode file that the
mapping said had it. But, being in indirect mode, it didn't really have the
content. So it did nothing. This fix makes it always move the content from
.git/annex/objects/ when it's there.
I don't know why, but I can't seem to set the environment variables inside
git-annex to work around the git error caused by android's crappy username
and hostname settings. This workaround works, and that's all that's good
about it.
Git fails on Android, because it gets some weird domain for local host like
"localhost.(none)". This works around that. I made it always set EMAIL when
GECOS workaround was needed (unless EMAIL is already set). It might be
nicer to try to get the hostname.domain as git does, and only set it if
that fails. But I don't want to be stuck trying to exactly duplicate
whatever git is doing.
A content directory can be frozen in direct mode. One way this can happen
is if the content is transferred before direct mode has a mapping for it,
so it's stored in the content directory.
So, we need to thaw the content directory before doing things with it.
The root of the problem is that toInodeCache sees a non-symlink, and so
goes on and generates a new inode cache for the dummy symlink.
Any place that toInodeCache, or sameFileStatus, or genInodeCache are called
may need to deal with this case. Although many of them are ok. For example,
prepSendAnnex calls sameInodeCache, which calls genInodeCache.. but if
the file content is not present, the InodeCache generated for its standin
file is appropriately not the same, and so it returns Nothing.
I've audited some, but have to say I'm not happy with this; it should be
handled at the type level somehow, or a toInodeCache wrapper be used that
is aware of dummy symlinks.
(The Watcher already dealt with it, via the guardSymlinkStandin function.)
Introduced a new per-remote option 'annex-rsync-transport' to specify
the remote shell that it to be used with rsync. In case the value is
'ssh', connections are cached unless 'sshcaching' is unset.
This looks at the string one char at a time, which is hardly efficient..
but more than good enough for expanding variables in
relatively short command lines.
Fixed by storing a list of cached inodes for a key, instead of just one.
Backwards compatability note: An old git-annex version will fail to parse
an inode cache file that has been written by a new version, and has
multiple items. It will succees if just one. So old git-annexes will have
even worse behavior when there are duplicated files, if that is possible.
I don't think it will be a problem. (Famous last words.)
Also, note that it doesn't expire old and unused inode caches for a key.
It would be possible to add this if needed; just look through the
associated files for a key and if there are more cached inodes, throw out
any not corresponding to associated files. Unless a file is being copied
repeatedly and the old copy deleted, this lack of expiry should not be a
problem.
* since this is a crippled filesystem anyway, git-annex doesn't use
symlinks on it
* so there's no reason to use the mixed case hash directories that we're
stuck using to avoid breaking everyone's symlinks to the content
* so we can do what is already done for all bare repos, and make non-bare
repos on crippled filesystems use the all-lower case hash directories
* which are, happily, all 3 letters long, so they cannot conflict with
mixed case hash directories
* so I was able to 100% fix this and even resuming `git annex add` in the
test case will recover and it will all just work.
This avoids commit churn by the assistant when eg,
replacing a file with a symlink.
But, just as importantly, it prevents the working tree being left with a
deleted file if git-annex, or perhaps the whole system, crashes at the
wrong time.
(It also probably avoids confusing displays in file managers.)
I would have sort of liked to put this in .gitattributes, but it seems
it does not support multi-word attribute values. Also, making this a single
config setting makes it easy to only parse the expression once.
A natural next step would be to make the assistant `git add` files that
are not annex.largefiles. OTOH, I don't think `git annex add` should
`git add` such files, because git-annex command line tools are
not in the business of wrapping git command line tools.
