Now when a download is queued and there's no known remote to get it from,
it's added to a deferred download list, which will be retried later.
The Merger thread tries to queue any deferred downloads when it receives
a push to the git-annex branch.
Note that the Merger thread now also forces an update of the git-annex
branch. The assistant was not updating this branch before, and it saw a
(mostly) correct view of state, but now that incoming pushes go to
synced/git-annex, it needs to be merged in.
Don't expose these as branches in refs/heads/. Instead hide them away in
refs/synced/ where only show-ref will find them.
Make unused only look at branches and tags, not these other things,
so it won't care if some stale sync ref used to use a file.
This means they don't need to be deleted, which could have
led to an incoming sync being missed.
The fallback branches pushed to contain the uuid of the pusher, which is
ugly. That's why syncing doesn't normally use this method.
The merger deletes fallback branches after merging them, to contain the
ugliness, and so unused doesn't look at data from these branches.
(The fallback git-annex branch is left behind for now.)
The reason the DirWatcher had to wait for program termination was because
it used withINotify, so when it finished, its watcher threads were killed.
But since I have two DirWatcher threads now, that was not good, and could
perhaps explain the MVar problem I saw yesterday. In any case, fixed this
part of the code by making the DirWatcher return a handle that can be used
to stop it, and now the main Assistant thread is the only one calling
waitForTermination.
Avoid MVar deadlock issue, which I don't understand.
Have not taken the time to debug it fully, because it turns out I don't
need to resolve merge conflicts when a new branch ref is written... I
think.
Ensure the git-annex branch is merged when doing a manual pull.
Otherwise it can get out of sync, since git-annex normally only merges it
once per run.