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.
This commit was sponsored by Ethan Aubin.
Avoid using fileSize which maxes out at just 2 gb on Windows.
Instead, use hFileSize, which doesn't have a bounded size.
Fixes support for files > 2 gb on Windows.
Note that the InodeCache code only needs to compare a file size,
so it doesn't matter it the file size wraps. So it has been
left as-is. This was necessary both to avoid invalidating existing inode
caches, and because the code passed FileStatus around and would have become
more expensive if it called getFileSize.
This commit was sponsored by Christian Dietrich.
Unfortunately, I don't fully understand why it was leaking using the old
method of a lazy bytestring. I just know that it was leaking, despite
neither hGetUntilMetered nor byteStringPopper seeming to leak by
themselves.
The new method avoids the lazy bytestring, and simply reads chunks from the
handle and streams them out to the http socket.
Fixes the memory leak on store.. the second oldest open git-annex bug!
Only retrieve remains to be converted.
This commit was sponsored by Scott Robinson.
