e53070c1f quietly made it set the local git config too, but that was never
documented anywhere, and it had surprising results. If I set
annex.largefiles globally in a repo, I would expect to be able to change it
in another repo, and the original repo would get the change and use it,
rather than being stuck on the old value set there.
And, if I have a local annex.largefiles and set a different global default,
I'd be surprised to have my local setting overwritten.
annex.securehashesonly does need to be set locally, since it's a security
feature and the global is only a default until it gets set locally. So
special cased.
annex.largefiles can be configured by git-annex config, to more easily set
a default that will also be used by clones, without needing to shoehorn the
expression into the gitattributes file. The git config and gitattributes
override that.
Whenever something is added to git-annex config, we have to consider what
happens if a user puts a purposfully bad value in there. Or, if a new
git-annex adds some new value that an old git-annex can't parse.
In this case, a global annex.largefiles that can't be parsed currently
makes an error be thrown. That might not be ideal, but the gitattribute
behaves the same, and is almost equally repo-global.
Performance notes:
git-annex add and addurl construct a matcher once
and uses it for every file, so the added time penalty for reading the global
config log is minor. If the gitattributes annex.largefiles were deprecated,
git-annex add would get around 2% faster (excluding hashing), because
looking that up for each file is not fast. So this new way of setting
it is progress toward speeding up add.
git-annex smudge does need to load the log every time. As well as checking
the git attribute. Not ideal. Setting annex.gitaddtoannex=false avoids
both overheads.
Remove dup definitions and just use the RawFilePath one. </> etc are
enough faster that it's probably faster than building a String directly,
although I have not benchmarked.
the encode' and decode' functions on Windows should not apply the
filesystem encoding, which does not work there. Instead, convert to and
from UTF-8.
Also, avoid exporting encodeW8 and decodeW8. Both use the filesystem
encoding, so won't work as expected on windows.
My ByteString rewrite oversimplified it, resulting in any _ in a journal
file turning into a / in the git-annex branch, which was often the wrong
filename, or sometimes (//) an invalid filename that git
refused to add.
