This is the same as running git annex reinject --known, followed by
git-annex import. The advantage to having it in one command is that it
only has to hash each file once; the two commands have to
hash the imported files a second time.
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import: --deduplicate and --skip-duplicates were implemented inneficiently;
they unncessarily hashed each file twice. They have been improved to only
hash once.
The new approach is to lock down (minimally) and hash files, and then
reuse that information when importing them.
This was rather tricky, especially in detecting changes to files while
they are being imported.
The output of import changed slightly. While before it silently skipped
over files with eg --skip-duplicates, now it shows each file as it starts
to act on it. Since every file is hashed first thing, it would otherwise
not be clear what file import is chewing on. (Actually, it wasn't clear
before when any of the duplicates switches were used.)
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Before, only content known to be present somewhere was considered a
duplicate. Now, any content that has been annexed before will be considered
a duplicate, even if all annexed copies of the data have been lost.
Note that --clean-duplicates and --deduplicate still check numcopies,
so won't delete duplicate files unless there's an annexed copy.
This makes import use the same method as reinject --known.
The man page already said that duplicate meant "its content is either
present in the local repository already, or git-annex knows of another
repository that contains it, or it was present in the annex before but has
been removed now". So, this is really only bringing the implementation into
line with the man page.
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Most remotes have an idempotent setup that can be reused for
enableremote, but in a few cases, it needs to tell which, and whether
a UUID was provided to setup was used.
This is groundwork for making initremote be able to provide a UUID.
It should not change any behavior.
Note that it would be nice to make the UUID always be provided to setup,
and make setup not need to generate and return a UUID. What prevented
this simplification is Remote.Git.gitSetup, which needs to reuse the
UUID of the git remote when setting it up, and so has to return that
UUID.
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