Once I built the basic widget, it turned out to be rather easy to replicate
it once per scheduled activity and wire it all up to a fully working UI.
This does abuse yesod's form handling a bit, but I think it's ok.
And it would be nice to have it all ajax-y, so that saving one modified
form won't lose any modifications to other forms. But for now, a nice
simple 115 line of code implementation is a win.
This late night hack session commit was sponsored by Andrea Rota.
Improved probing the remote server, so it gathers a list of the
capabilities it has. From that list, we can determine which types
of remotes are supported, and display an appropriate UI.
The new buttons for making gcrypt repos don't work yet, but the old buttons
for unencrypted git repo and encrypted rsync repo have been adapted to the
new data types and are working.
This commit was sponsored by David Schmitt.
Now the webapp can generate a gpg key that is dedicated for use by
git-annex. Since the key is single use, much of the complexity of
generating gpg keys is avoided.
Note that the key has no password, because gpg-agent is not available
everywhere the assistant is installed. This is not a big security problem
because the key is going to live on the same disk as the git annex
repository, so an attacker with access to it can look directly in the
repository to see the same files that get stored in the encrypted
repository on the removable drive.
There is no provision yet for backing up keys.
This commit sponsored by Robert Beaty.
This includes recovery from the ssh-agent problem that led to many reporting
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/Internal_Server_Error:_Unknown_UUID/
(Including fixing up .ssh/config to set IdentitiesOnly.)
Remotes that have no known uuid are now displayed in the webapp as
"unfinished". There's a link to check their status, and if the remote
has been set annex-ignore, a retry button can be used to unset that and
try again to set up the remote.
As this bug has shown, the process of adding a ssh remote has some failure
modes that are not really ideal. It would certianly be better if, when
setting up a ssh remote it would detect if it's failed to get the UUID,
and handle that in the remote setup process, rather than waiting until
later and handling it this way.
However, that's hard to do, particularly for local pairing, since the
PairListener runs as a background thread. The best it could do is pop up an
alert if there's a problem. This solution is not much different.
Also, this solution handles cases where the user has gotten their repo into
a mess manually and let's the assistant help with cleaning it up.
This commit was sponsored by Chia Shee Liang. Thanks!
Would like to also have restart UI, but that's rather harder to do,
seems it'd need to start another copy of the webapp, and redirect the
browser to its new url, but running two assistants in the same repo at
the same time isn't good.
Now there's a Config type, that's extracted from the git config at startup.
Note that laziness means that individual config values are only looked up
and parsed on demand, and so we get implicit memoization for all of them.
So this is not only prettier and more type safe, it optimises several
places that didn't have explicit memoization before. As well as getting rid
of the ugly explicit memoization code.
Not yet done for annex.<remote>.* configuration settings.
