Currently it only displays explanations of options like --in and --copies.
In the future, it should explain preferred content expression evaluation
and other decisions.
The explanations of a few things could be better. In particular,
"standard" will just appear as-is (or as "!standard" if it doesn't
match), rather than explaining why the standard preferred content expression
for the group matches or not.
Currently as implemented, it goes to stdout, and so commands like
git-annex find that have custom output will not display --explain
information. Perhaps that should change, dunno.
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It just so happens that everywhere that checks attrs other than
annex.largefiles parses the value further, and failed to parse
unspecifiedAttr in a way that behaved the same as if nothing was set. So
this is not a bug fix or behavior change. What it does so is prevent
future uses of checkAttr from needing to remember to handle checking for
this edge case.
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Well, actually, fix a typo that has always been in the implementation of
that. "inbacked" used to work, but let's not tell users about that; they
might try to use it and expect git-annex to keep supporting the typo..
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Added LinkType to ProvidedInfo, and unified MatchingKey with
ProvidedInfo. They're both used in the same way, so there was no real
reason to keep separate.
Note that addLocked and addUnlocked still set matchNeedsFileName,
because to handle MatchingFile, they do need it. However, they
don't use it when MatchingInfo is provided. This should be ok,
the --branch case will be able skip checking matchNeedsFileName,
since it will provide a filename in any case.
MatchingKey is not the thing to use when matching on actual worktreee
files.
Fix reversion in 8.20201116 that made include= and exclude= in
preferred/required content expressions match a path relative to the current
directory, rather than the path from the top of the repository.
This fixes a bug where a file that was not preferred content could be
transferred to a remote. This happened when the file got deleted after
the sync started running.
The only time checkMatcher is run without a Key is in calls to
checkFileMatcher, which are only done by add, addurl, import, and
smudge --clean. Those won't be affected by this kind of race. Anything
else that might be precaching and have a similar race as sync will also
be fixed, but I don't know if it actually affected anything other than
sync.
As well as fixing a bug, this also probably makes sync and --auto faster
by avoiding the redundant key lookup.
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The latter is for git-annex matchexpression and matching against it can
throw an exception. Splitting out the former reduces the potential for
mistakes and avoids needing to worry about matching against that
throwing an exception.
This is more groundwork for matching largefiles while importing,
without downloading content.
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Anything that needs to examine the file content will fail to match,
or fall back to other available information. But the intent is that the
matcher be checked for matchNeedsFileContent and only be used if it does
not, so the exact behavior doesn't much matter as it should never
happen.
The real point of this is to not need to provide a dummy content file
when matching.
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Sped up seeking for files to operate on, when using options like --copies
or --in, by around 20%.
Benchmark showed an increase for --copies from 155 seconds to 121
seconds, and --in remote will be similar to that.
For --in here, the speedup was less, 5-10% or so.
(both warm cache)
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Sped up seeking to around twice as fast, by avoiding a pass over the
worktree files when preferred content expressions of the local repo and
remotes don't use include=/exclude=.
Thanks to Lukey for identifying the optimisation.
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matchNeedsFileContent is not used yet, but shows how to add information
about terminals. That one would be needed for
https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/sync_fast_import/
Note the tricky bit in Annex.FileMatcher.call where it folds over the
included matcher to propagate the information.
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preferreddir can be used with any special remote, so its parser needs to
be included in the commonFieldParsers.
initremote with uuid= changed to delete that field, so it does not
need to be included in commonFieldParsers. Note that, existing remotes
initialized before this change will have the field in remote.log.
This will not cause problems parsing, because the value will be
Accepted.
Grepping for 'Accepted "' found these, and I'm pretty sure this is all of
them.
This is a first step toward that goal, using the ProposedAccepted type
in RemoteConfig lets initremote/enableremote reject bad parameters that
were passed in a remote's configuration, while avoiding enableremote
rejecting bad parameters that have already been stored in remote.log
This does not eliminate every place where a remote config is parsed and a
default value is used if the parse false. But, I did fix several
things that expected foo=yes/no and so confusingly accepted foo=true but
treated it like foo=no. There are still some fields that are parsed with
yesNo but not not checked when initializing a remote, and there are other
fields that are parsed in other ways and not checked when initializing a
remote.
This also lays groundwork for rejecting unknown/typoed config keys.
* annex.addunlocked can be set to an expression with the same format used by
annex.largefiles, in case you want to default to unlocking some files but
not others.
* annex.addunlocked can be configured by git-annex config.
Added a git-annex-matching-expression man page, broken out from
tips/largefiles.
A tricky consequence of this is that git-annex add --relaxed
honors annex.addunlocked, but an expression might want to know the size
or content of an url, which it's not going to download. I decided it was
better not to fail, and just dummy up some plausible data in that case.
Performance impact should be negligible. The global config is already
loaded for annex.largefiles. The expression only has to be parsed once,
and in the simple true/false case, it should not do any additional work
matching it.
annex.largefiles can be configured by git-annex config, to more easily set
a default that will also be used by clones, without needing to shoehorn the
expression into the gitattributes file. The git config and gitattributes
override that.
Whenever something is added to git-annex config, we have to consider what
happens if a user puts a purposfully bad value in there. Or, if a new
git-annex adds some new value that an old git-annex can't parse.
In this case, a global annex.largefiles that can't be parsed currently
makes an error be thrown. That might not be ideal, but the gitattribute
behaves the same, and is almost equally repo-global.
Performance notes:
git-annex add and addurl construct a matcher once
and uses it for every file, so the added time penalty for reading the global
config log is minor. If the gitattributes annex.largefiles were deprecated,
git-annex add would get around 2% faster (excluding hashing), because
looking that up for each file is not fast. So this new way of setting
it is progress toward speeding up add.
git-annex smudge does need to load the log every time. As well as checking
the git attribute. Not ideal. Setting annex.gitaddtoannex=false avoids
both overheads.
Adds a dependency on filepath-bytestring, an as yet unreleased fork of
filepath that operates on RawFilePath.
Git.Repo also changed to use RawFilePath for the path to the repo.
This does eliminate some RawFilePath -> FilePath -> RawFilePath
conversions. And filepath-bytestring's </> is probably faster.
But I don't expect a major performance improvement from this.
This is mostly groundwork for making Annex.Location use RawFilePath,
which will allow for a conversion-free pipleline.
Finally builds (oh the agoncy of making it build), but still very
unmergable, only Command.Find is included and lots of stuff is badly
hacked to make it compile.
Benchmarking vs master, this git-annex find is significantly faster!
Specifically:
num files old new speedup
48500 4.77 3.73 28%
12500 1.36 1.02 66%
20 0.075 0.074 0% (so startup time is unchanged)
That's without really finishing the optimization. Things still to do:
* Eliminate all the fromRawFilePath, toRawFilePath, encodeBS,
decodeBS conversions.
* Use versions of IO actions like getFileStatus that take a RawFilePath.
* Eliminate some Data.ByteString.Lazy.toStrict, which is a slow copy.
* Use ByteString for parsing git config to speed up startup.
It's likely several of those will speed up git-annex find further.
And other commands will certianly benefit even more.
Fix bug in handling of annex.largefiles that use largerthan/smallerthan.
When adding a modified file, it incorrectly used the file size of the old
version of the file, not the current size.
That was the only largefiles limit that didn't directly look at the file on
disk already. Added a new type to keep straight the two different ways such
a limit can be matched. I kind of wanted to extend MatchingFile or FileInfo
to indicate that the matcher is supposed to operate on files from disk or
annex, but it turned out to be too complex to implement it that way.
This also changes the LimitAnnexFiles case when lookupFileKey does not find
a key. It used to fall back to statting the file, now it always returns
False. I doubt the old code could really get to that point, but if it
somehow does, it's better for preferred content matching to be consistent.
The filtering is fairly efficient as far as building the trees goes,
since it reuses adjustTree. But it still needs to traverse the whole
tree, and look up the keys used by every file.
The tree that gets recorded to export.log is the filtered tree.
This way resumes of interrupted sync to an export uses it without
needing to recalculate it. And, a change to the preferred content
settings of the remote will result in a different tree, so the export
will be updated accordingly.
The original tree is still used in the remote tracking branch.
That branch represents the special remote as a git remote, and if it
were a normal git remote, the tree in its head would not be affected by
preferred content.
Only when the preferred content expression includes them will a parse
failure due to them needing keys result in the preferred content
expression not parsing in keyless mode.
This will let import try to match preferred content expressions before
downloading the content and generating its key.
If an expression needs a key, it preferredContentParser with
preferredContentKeylessTokens will fail to parse it.
standard and groupwanted are not in preferredContentKeylessTokens
because they may refer to an expression that refers to a key.
That needs further work to support them.
* Added mimeencoding= term to annex.largefiles expressions.
This is probably mostly useful to match non-text files with eg
"mimeencoding=binary"
* git-annex matchexpression: Added --mimeencoding option.
This does not change the overall license of the git-annex program, which
was already AGPL due to a number of sources files being AGPL already.
Legally speaking, I'm adding a new license under which these files are
now available; I already released their current contents under the GPL
license. Now they're dual licensed GPL and AGPL. However, I intend
for all my future changes to these files to only be released under the
AGPL license, and I won't be tracking the dual licensing status, so I'm
simply changing the license statement to say it's AGPL.
(In some cases, others wrote parts of the code of a file and released it
under the GPL; but in all cases I have contributed a significant portion
of the code in each file and it's that code that is getting the AGPL
license; the GPL license of other contributors allows combining with
AGPL code.)
* findref: Support file matching options: --include, --exclude,
--want-get, --want-drop, --largerthan, --smallerthan, --accessedwithin
* Commands supporting --branch now apply file matching options --include,
--exclude, --want-get, --want-drop to filenames from the branch.
Previously, combining --branch with those would fail to match anything.
* add, import, findref: Support --time-limit.
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v6: When annex.largefiles is not configured for a file, running git add or
git commit, or otherwise using git to stage a file will add it to the annex
if the file was in the annex before, and to git otherwise. This is to avoid
accidental conversion.
Note that git-annex add's behavior has not changed, for reasons explained
in the added comment.
Performance: No added overhead when annex.largefiles is configured.
When not configured, there is an added call to catObjectMetaData,
which involves a round trip through git cat-file --batch.
However, the earlier catKeyFile primes the cache for it.
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Needs ghc 7.6.1, so minimum base version increased slightly. All builds
are well above this version of ghc, and debian oldstable is as well.
Code that could use lambdacase can be found by running:
git grep -B 1 'case ' | less
and searching in less for "<-"
This commit was sponsored by andrea rota.
Added --securehash option to match files using a secure hash function, and
corresponding securehash preferred content expression.
This commit was sponsored by Ethan Aubin.
ghc 8 added backtraces on uncaught errors. This is great, but git-annex was
using error in many places for a error message targeted at the user, in
some known problem case. A backtrace only confuses such a message, so omit it.
Notably, commands like git annex drop that failed due to eg, numcopies,
used to use error, so had a backtrace.
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