In Annex.Content, the object file was statted after pointer files were
populated. But if annex.thin is set, once the pointer files are
populated, the object file can potentially be modified via the hard
link. So, it was possible, though seemingly very unlikely, for the inode
of the modified object file to be cached.
Command.Fix and Command.Fsck had similar problems, statting the work
tree files after they were in place. Changed them to stat the temp file
that gets moved into place. This does rely on .git/annex being on the
same filesystem. If it's not, the cached inode will not be the same as
the one that the temp file gets moved to. Result will be that git-annex
will later need to do an expensive verification of the content of the
worktree files. Note that the cross-filesystem move of the temp file
already is a larger amount of extra work, so this seems acceptable.
Sponsored-by: Luke Shumaker on Patreon
Fix bug that caused some transfers to incorrectly fail with "content
changed while it was being sent", when the content was not changed.
While I don't know how to reproduce the problem that several people
reported, it is presumably due to the inode cache somehow being stale.
So check isUnmodified', and if it's not modified, include the file's
current inode cache in the set to accept, when checking for modification
after the transfer.
That seems like the right thing to do for another reason: The failure
says the file changed while it was being sent, but if the object file was
changed before the transfer started, that's wrong. So it needs to check
before allowing the transfer at all if the file is modified.
(Other calls to sameInodeCache or elemInodeCaches, when operating on inode
caches from the database, could also be problimatic if the inode cache is
somehow getting stale. This does not address such problems.)
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When git-annex lock repopulates the object file by copying an associated
file that still has its content, it negected to update the inode cache.
I was not able to actually get this code to successfully repopulate the
object file; the associated file gets replaced with a dangling pointer
before unlock is able to do that. (By what I'm not sure..
reconcileStaged?) Which might be itself a bug, but
anyway this makes me doubtful that this was really leading to a stale
inode cache. Still, in case there is some situation in which it does
work, fixed it to update the inode cache.
Which is the same as the git merge option.
After last commit, this turns out to be needed in the test suite, and when
doing git-annex import from special remote, followed by a git-annex merge.
Sponsored-by: Svenne Krap on Patreon
sync, merge, post-receive: Avoid merging unrelated histories, which used to
be allowed only to support direct mode repositories.
(However, sync does still merge unrelated histories when importing trees
from special remotes, and the assistant still merges unrelated histories
always.)
See 556b2ded2b for why this was added
back in 2016, for direct mode.
This is a behavior change, which might break something that was relying
on sync merging unrelated histories, but git had a good reason to
prevent it, since it's easy to foot shoot with it, and git-annex should
follow suit.
Sponsored-by: Noam Kremen on Patreon
* sync: When --quiet is used, run git commit, push, and pull without
their ususual output.
* merge: When --quiet is used, run git merge without its usual output.
This might also make --quiet work better for some other commands
that make commits, like git-annex adjust.
Sponsored-by: Kevin Mueller on Patreon
To avoid mistakes like commit 0ccbed4f6f,
be explicit about the two variants of this.
Incidentially avoids a small amount of overhead in calling reverse.
Sponsored-by: Shae Erisson on Patreon
