Seems to work, but still experimental until it's been tested more.
When repositories are on filesystems not supporting symlinks, the .git dir
symlink trick cannot be used. Since we're going to be in direct mode
anyway, the .git dir symlink is not strictly needed.
However, I have not fixed the code that creates new annex symlinks to
handle this case -- the committed symlinks will be wrong.
git annex sync happens to currently fail in a submodule using direct mode,
because there's no HEAD ref. That also needs to be dealt with to get
this fully working in crippled filesystems.
Leaving http://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/44 open until these issues
are dealt with.
Most of the time, there will be no discreprancy between programPath and
readProgramFile.
But, the programFile might have been written by an old version of git-annex
that is still installed, while a newer one is currently running. In this
case, we want to run the same one that's currently running.
This is especially important for things like the GIT_SSH=git-annex used for
ssh connection caching.
The only code that still uses readProgramFile directly is the upgrade code,
which needs to know where the standalone git-annex was installed, in order to
upgrade it.
See my comment in the bug report for analysis; basically this is safe
because it's a non-forced push, so won't lose history. Even if it was a
forced push or somehow races, things will eventually become consistent and
no git-annex branch info will be lost.
(This used to be done, but it forgot to do it since version 4.20130909.)
* sync: Use the ssh-options git config when doing git pull and push.
* remotedaemon: Use the ssh-options git config.
Note that the rename env var means that if a new git-annex calls an old one
for git-annex ssh, or a new calls an old, nothing much will go wrong;
just ssh caching won't happen.
Note that while the assistant detects changes made to remote names, I left
the commit message fixed rather than calculating it after every commit. It
doesn't seem worth the CPU to do the latter.
hGetSomeString reads one byte at a time, so unicode bytes are not composed.
The problem comes when outputting that to the console with hPut; that
tried to apply the handle's encoding, and so we get mojibake.
Instead, use ByteStrings, and only convert it to a string for parsing, not
for display.
Note that there are a couple of other things that use hGetSomeString,
which I've left as-is for now.
--deduplicate, --skip-duplicates, and --clean-duplicates still checksum the
file twice, the first time to determine if it's a duplicate. This cannot be
easily merged with the checksumming done to add the file, since the file
needs to be locked down before that second checksum is taken.
I hope this doesn't impact speed much -- it does have to pull out a value
from Annex state every time it accesses the branch now.
The test case I dropped has never caught any problems that I can remember,
and would have been rather difficult to convert.
* init: Repository tuning parameters can now be passed when initializing a
repository for the first time. For details, see
http://git-annex.branchable.com/tuning/
* merge: Refuse to merge changes from a git-annex branch of a repo
that has been tuned in incompatable ways.
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.
* info: Can now display info about a given uuid.
* Added to remote/uuid info: Count of the number of keys present
on the remote, and their size. This is rather expensive to calculate,
so comes last and --fast will disable it.
* Git remote info now includes the date of the last sync with the remote.
