Fourth or fifth try at this and finally found a way to make it work.
Absurd amount of busy-work forced on me by change in cabal's behavior.
Split up Utility modules that need posix stuff out of ones used by
Setup. Various other hacks around inability for Setup to use anything
that ifdefs a use of unix.
Probably lost a full day of my life to this.
This is how build systems make their users hate them. Just saying.
Windows: Fix reversion that caused the path used to link to annexed
content include the drive letter and full path, rather than being
relative. (`git annex fix` will fix up after this problem).
I've not identified the commit that brought the reversion (probably it
happened this spring when I was removing MisingH and last touched
Utility.Path). Likely commit 18b9a4b8024115db67ae309fdaf54e1553037529?
The problem is that relPathDirToFile got called two paths that had the
slashes different ways around. Since takeDrive includes the first slash,
this made two paths on the same drive seem different and it bailed.
(ifdefs around this to avoid doing extra work on non-windows)
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Removed dependency on MissingH, instead depending on the split
library.
After laying groundwork for this since 2015, it
was mostly straightforward. Added Utility.Tuple and
Utility.Split. Eyeballed System.Path.WildMatch while implementing
the same thing.
Since MissingH's progress meter display was being used, I re-implemented
my own. Bonus: Now progress is displayed for transfers of files of
unknown size.
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Moving toward dropping MissingH dep.
I think I've addressed the problem identified earlier in
09a66f702d. On Windows,
absPathFrom "/tmp/repo/xxx" "y/bar" would be "/tmp/repo/xxx\\y/bar",
which then confuses relPathDirToFile. Fixed by converting to unix (git)
style paths.
Also, relPathDirToFile was splitting only on \\ on windows and not /
which broke the example in 09a66f702d of
relPathDirToFile (absPathFrom "/tmp/repo/xxx" "y/bar") "/tmp/repo/.git/annex/objects/xxx"
Now, on windows, that will yield "..\\..\\..\\.git/annex/objects/xxx"
which once converted to unix style paths is what we want.
findShellCommand needs a full path to a file in order to check it for a
shebang on Windows. It was being run with only the base name of the external
special remote program, which would only work when it was in the current
directory.
This is why users in
https://github.com/DanielDent/git-annex-remote-rclone/pull/10 and elsewhere
were complaining that the previous improvements to git-annex didn't make
git-remote-rclone work on Windows.
Also, reworked checkearlytermination, which while it worked, seemed
to rely on a race condition. And, improved its error messages.
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It started exporting a isSymbolicLink which supports windows. But,
git-annex does no use symlinks on windows yet and this conflicts with the
function by the same name from unix-compat, so hide it.
The repo path is typically relative, not absolute, so
providing it to absPathFrom doesn't yield an absolute path.
This is not a bug, just unclear documentation.
Indeed, there seem to be no reason to simplifyPath here, which absPathFrom
does, so instead just combine the repo path and the TopFilePath.
Also, removed an export of the TopFilePath constructor; asTopFilePath
is provided to construct one as-is.
This fixes a reversion introduced by relative path changes back last winter.
The root cause is simplifyPath "../foo" was incorrectly yielding "foo".
absPathFrom seems quite horrible. Probably most things that use it should
use </> instead.
This is certianly a cabal bug for not passing the build options in the
cabal file when building Setup.hs.
And, why oh why did ghc enable this warning by default? So unhappy with
this choice.
Since we started using this for git repos, when a remote was on another
drive, it resulted in a bogus relative path to it being used by git-annex,
which didn't work.
New approach is to do it the expensive way for the first 100 paths
on the command line, but then assume the user doesn't care about order too
much and fall back to the cheap way that does not preserve order.
This reverts commit a7f05c007b.
Consider: relPathDirToFile (absPathFrom "/tmp/repo/xxx" "y/bar") "/tmp/repo/.git/annex/objects/xxx"
This needs to always yield "../../../.git/annex/objects/xxx" but on
Windows, it is "..\\..\\/tmp/repo/.git/annex/objects/xxx"
Reverts 965e106f24
Unfortunately, this caused breakage on Windows, and possibly elsewhere,
because parentDir and takeDirectory do not behave the same when there is a
trailing directory separator.
parentDir is less safe than takeDirectory, especially when working
with relative FilePaths. It's really only useful in loops that
want to terminate at /
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This allows the git repository to be moved while git-annex is running in
it, with fewer problems.
On Windows, this avoids some of the problems with the absurdly small
MAX_PATH of 260 bytes. In particular, git-annex repositories should
work in deeper/longer directory structures than before. See
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/__34__git-annex:_direct:_1_failed__34___on_Windows/
There are several possible ways this change could break git-annex:
1. If it changes its working directory while it's running, that would
be Bad News. Good news everyone! git-annex never does so. It would also
break thread safety, so all such things were stomped out long ago.
2. parentDir "." -> "" which is not a valid path. I had to fix one
instace of this, and I should probably wipe all calls to parentDir out
of the git-annex code base; it was never a good idea.
3. Things like relPathDirToFile require absolute input paths,
and code assumes that the git repo path is absolute and passes it to it
as-is. In the case of relPathDirToFile, I converted it to not make
this assumption.
Currently, the test suite has 16 failures.
This fixes all instances of " \t" in the code base. Most common case
seems to be after a "where" line; probably vim copied the two space layout
of that line.
Done as a background task while listening to episode 2 of the Type Theory
podcast.
Promosing work toward metadata driven filter branches. A few methods
to construct them are stubbed out; all the data types and pure code
seems good.
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git-annex has been using MissingH's `abdNormPath` forever, but that's
unmaintained and possibly buggy, and doesn't work on Windows. I've been
wanting to get rid of it for some time, and finally did today, writing a
`simplifyPath` that does the things git-annex needs and will work with all
the Windows filename craziness, and takes advantage of the more modern
System.FilePath to be quite a simple peice of code. A QuickCheck test found
no important divergences from absNormPath. A good first step to making
git-annex not depend on MissingH at all.
And it fixed some weird behaviors on Windows like
`git annex add ..\subdir\file` not working.
Note that absNormPathUnix has been left alone for now.
Seems I punted on this while porting before. This hack relies on DOS not
using / in filenames, it's effectively an alternate path separatr in at
least current versions of windows..
When quvi is installed, git-annex addurl automatically uses it to detect
when an page is a video, and downloads the video file.
web special remote: Also support using quvi, for getting files,
or checking if files exist in the web.
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Started with a problem when running addurl on a really long url,
because the whole url is munged into the filename. Ended up doing
a fairly extensive review for places where filenames could get too large,
although it's hard to say I'm not missed any..
Backend.Url had a 128 character limit, which is fine when the limit is 255,
but not if it's a lot shorter on some systems. So check the pathconf()
limit. Note that this could result in fromUrl creating different keys
for the same url, if run on systems with different limits. I don't see
this is likely to cause any problems. That can already happen when using
addurl --fast, or if the content of an url changes.
Both Command.AddUrl and Backend.Url assumed that urls don't contain a
lot of multi-byte unicode, and would fail to truncate an url that did
properly.
A few places use a filename as the template to make a temp file.
While that's nice in that the temp file name can be easily related back to
the original filename, it could lead to `git annex add` failing to add a
filename that was at or close to the maximum length.
Note that in Command.Add.lockdown, the template is still derived from the
filename, just with enough space left to turn it into a temp file.
This is an important optimisation, because the assistant may lock down
a bunch of files all at once, and using the same template for all of them
would cause openTempFile to iterate through the same set of names,
looking for an unused temp file. I'm not very happy with the relatedTemplate
hack, but it avoids that slowdown.
Backend.WORM does not limit the filename stored in the key.
I have not tried to change that; so git annex add will fail on really long
filenames when using the WORM backend. It seems better to preserve the
invariant that a WORM key always contains the complete filename, since
the filename is the only unique material in the key, other than mtime and
size. Since nobody has complained about add failing (I think I saw it
once?) on WORM, probably it's ok, or nobody but me uses it.
There may be compatability problems if using git annex addurl --fast
or the WORM backend on a system with the 255 limit and then trying to use
that repo in a system with a smaller limit. I have not tried to deal with
those.
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