To support this, a core.gcrypt-id is stored by git-annex inside the git
config of a local gcrypt repository, when setting it up.
That is compared with the remote's cached gcrypt-id. When different, a
drive has been changed. git-annex then looks up the remote config for
the uuid mapped from the core.gcrypt-id, and tweaks the configuration
appropriately. When there is no known config for the uuid, it will refuse to
use the remote.
Note that it would be possible to extend the display to show all
repositories. But there can be a lot of repositories that are not set up as
remotes, and it would significantly clutter the display to show them all.
Since we're not showing all repositories, it's not worth trying to show
numcopies count either.
I decided to embrace these limitations and call the command remotes.
Use rsync for gcrypt remotes that are not local to the disk.
(Note that I have punted on supporting http transport for now, it doesn't
seem likely to be very useful.)
This was mostly quite easy, it just uses the rsync special remote to handle
the transfers. The git repository url is converted to a RsyncOptions
structure, which required parsing it separately, since the rsync special
remote only supports rsync urls, which use a different format.
Note that annexed objects are now stored at the top of the gcrypt repo,
rather than inside annex/objects. This simplified the rsync suport,
since it doesn't have to arrange to create that directory. And git-annex
is not going to be run directly within gcrypt repos -- or if in some
strance scenario it was, it would make sense for it to not see the
encrypted objects.
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Wrote nice pure transition calculator, and ugly code to stage its results
into the git-annex branch. Also had to split up several Log modules
that Annex.Branch needed to use, but that themselves used Annex.Branch.
The transition calculator is limited to looking at and changing one file at
a time. While this made the implementation relatively easy, it precludes
transitions that do stuff like deleting old url log files for keys that are
being removed because they are no longer present anywhere.
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.
This commit was sponsored by Mark Hepburn. Thanks!
<RichiH> i richih@eudyptes (git)-[master] ~git/debconf-share/debconf13/photos/chrysn % rm /home/richih/work/git/debconf-share/.git/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s3044235--693b74fcb12db06b5e79a8b99d03e2418923866506ee62d24a4e9ae8c5236758.JPG
<RichiH> richih@eudyptes (git)-[master] ~git/debconf-share/debconf13/photos/chrysn % git annex get P8060008.JPG
<RichiH> get P8060008.JPG (from website...) --2013-08-21 21:42:45-- http://annex.debconf.org/debconf-share/.git//annex/objects/1a4/67d/SHA256E-s3044235--693b74fcb12db06b5e79a8b99d03e2418923866506ee62d24a4e9ae8c5236758.JPG/SHA256E-s3044235--693b74fcb12db06b5e79a8b99d03e2418923866506ee62d24a4e9ae8c5236758.JPG
<RichiH> Resolving annex.debconf.org (annex.debconf.org)... 5.153.231.227, 2001:41c8:1000:19::227:2
<RichiH> Connecting to annex.debconf.org (annex.debconf.org)|5.153.231.227|:80... connected.
<RichiH> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
<RichiH> 2013-08-21 21:42:45 ERROR 404: Not Found.
<RichiH> File `/home/richih/work/git/debconf-share/.git/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s3044235--693b74fcb12db06b5e79a8b99d03e2418923866506ee62d24a4e9ae8c5236758.JPG' already there; not retrieving.
<RichiH> Unable to access these remotes: website
<RichiH> Try making some of these repositories available:
<RichiH> 3e0356ac-0743-11e3-83a5-1be63124a102 -- website (annex.debconf.org)
<RichiH> a7495021-9f2d-474e-80c7-34d29d09fec6 -- chrysn@hephaistos:~/data/projects/debconf13/debconf-share
<RichiH> eb8990f7-84cd-4e6b-b486-a5e71efbd073 -- joeyh passport usb drive
<RichiH> f415f118-f428-4c68-be66-c91501da3a93 -- joeyh laptop
<RichiH> failed
<RichiH> git-annex: get: 1 failed
<RichiH> richih@eudyptes (git)-[master] ~git/debconf-share/debconf13/photos/chrysn %
I was not able to reproduce the failure, but I did reproduce that
wget -O http://404/ results in an empty file being written.
This is a simple approach for setting up a mirroring repository.
It will work with any type of remotes.
Mirror --from is more expensive than mirror --to in general.
OTOH, mirror --from will get the file from any remote that has it, not only
the named mirror remote. And if the named mirror remote is not the fastest
available remote with a file, that can speed things up.
It would be possible to make the assistant or watch command do a more
dynamic mirroring, that didn't need to scan every time.
Requires git 1.8.4 or newer. When it's installed, a background
git check-ignore process is run, and used to efficiently check ignores
whenever a new file is added.
Thanks to Adam Spiers, for getting the necessary support into git for this.
A complication is what to do about files that are gitignored but have
been checked into git anyway. git commands assume the ignore has been
overridden in this case, and not need any more overriding to commit a
changed version.
However, for the assistant to do the same, it would have to run git ls-files
to check if the ignored file is in git. This is somewhat expensive. Or it
could use the running git-cat-file process to query the file that way,
but that requires transferring the whole file content over a pipe, so it
can be quite expensive too, for files that are not git-annex
symlinks.
Now imagine if the user knows that a file or directory tree will be getting
frequent changes, and doesn't want the assistant to sync it, so gitignores
it. The assistant could overload the system with repeated ls-files checks!
So, I've decided that the assistant will not automatically commit changes
to files that are gitignored. This is a tradeoff. Hopefully it won't be a
problem to adjust .gitignore settings to not ignore files you want the
assistant to autocommit, or to manually git annex add files that are listed
in .gitignore.
(This could be revisited if git-annex gets access to an interface to check
the content of the index w/o forking a git command. This could be libgit2,
or perhaps a separate git cat-file --batch-check process, so it wouldn't
need to ship over the whole file content.)
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This runs git-cat-file in non-batch mode for all files with spaces.
If a directory tree has a lot of them, and is in direct mode, even "git
annex add" when there are few new files will need a *lot* of forks!
The only reason buffering the whole file content to get the sha is not a
memory leak is that git-annex only ever uses this on symlinks.
This needs to be reverted as soon as a fix is available in git!
A git pathspec is a filename, except when it starts with ':', it's taken
to refer to a branch, etc. Rather than special case ':', any filename
starting with anything unusual is prefixed with "./"
This could have been a real mess to deal with, but luckily SafeCommand
is already extensively used and so we know at the type level the difference
between parameters that are files, and parameters that are command options.
Testing did show that Git.Queue was not using SafeCommand on
filenames fed to xargs. (Filenames starting with '-' worked before only
because -- was used to separate filenames from options when calling eg git
add.)
The test suite now passes with filenames starting with ':'. However, I did
not keep that change to it, because such filenames are probably not legal
on windows, and I have enough ugly windows ifdefs in there as it is.
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This includes recovery from the ssh-agent problem that led to many reporting
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/Internal_Server_Error:_Unknown_UUID/
(Including fixing up .ssh/config to set IdentitiesOnly.)
Remotes that have no known uuid are now displayed in the webapp as
"unfinished". There's a link to check their status, and if the remote
has been set annex-ignore, a retry button can be used to unset that and
try again to set up the remote.
As this bug has shown, the process of adding a ssh remote has some failure
modes that are not really ideal. It would certianly be better if, when
setting up a ssh remote it would detect if it's failed to get the UUID,
and handle that in the remote setup process, rather than waiting until
later and handling it this way.
However, that's hard to do, particularly for local pairing, since the
PairListener runs as a background thread. The best it could do is pop up an
alert if there's a problem. This solution is not much different.
Also, this solution handles cases where the user has gotten their repo into
a mess manually and let's the assistant help with cleaning it up.
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When setting up a dedicated ssh key to access the annex on a host,
set IdentitiesOnly to prevent the ssh-agent from forcing use of a different
ssh key.
That behavior could result in unncessary password prompts. I remember
getting a message or two from people who got deluged with password
prompts and I couldn't at the time see why.
Also, it would prevent git-annex-shell from being run on the remote host,
when git-annex was installed there by unpacking the standalone tarball,
since the authorized_keys line for the dedicated ssh key, which sets
up calling git-annex-shell when it's not in path, wouldn't be used.
This fixes
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/Internal_Server_Error:_Unknown_UUID
but I've not closed that bug yet since I should still:
1. Investigate why the ssh remote got set up despite being so broken.
2. Make the webapp not handle the NoUUID state in such an ugly way.
3. Possibly add code to fix up systems that encountered the problem.
Although since it requires changes to .ssh/config this may be one for
the release notes.
Thanks to TJ for pointing me in the right direction to understand what
was happening here.
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.
This commit was sponsored by Alexander Brem. Thanks!
This bug was introduced in 82a6db8fe8,
which improved handling of adding very large numbers of files by ensuring
that a minimum number of max size commits (5000 files each) were done.
I accidentially made it wait for another change to appear after such a max
size commit, even if a lot of queued changes were already accumulated.
That resulted in a stall when it got to the end. Now fixed to not wait
any longer than necessary to ensure the watcher has had time to wake back
up after the max size commit.
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This is a laziness problem. Despite the bang pattern on newfiles, the list
was not being fully evaluated before cleanup was called. Moving cleanup out
to after the list is actually used fixes this.
More evidence that I should be using ResourceT or pipes, if any was needed.
This affected both the hourly NetWatcherFallback thread and the syncing
when network connection is detected.
It was a reversion of sorts, introduced in
8861e270be, when annex-ignore was changed to
not control git syncing. I forgot to make it check annex-sync at that
point.
This was the last place in git-annex that could remove data referred to by
the git history, without being forced.
Like drop, dropunused checks remotes, and honors the global annex.numcopies
setting. (However, .gitattributes settings cannot apply to unused files.)
I only added this to the presense messages that are really intended for
presence. The ones used for tunneling git etc don't have the tag, because
that would waste bandwidth.
In direct mode, it's best to whenever possible not move direct mode files
out of the way, and so I made unannex avoid touching the direct mode file at
all.
That actually turns out to be easy, because in direct mode, unlike indirect
mode, the pre-commit hook won't get confused if the unannexed file later
gets added back by git add. So there's no need to commit the unannex right
away; it can be staged for the user to commit later. This also means that
unannex in direct mode is a lot faster than in indirect mode!
Another subtle bit is the bookkeeping that is done when unannexing a direct
mode file. The inode cache needs to be removed so that when uninit runs
getKeysPresent, it doesn't see the cache and think the key is still
present and crash when it's not.
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This is ok to do now that the socket filename never needs to be mapped back
to a hostname.
Short hostnames will still appear in the clear, which is less obfuscated.
So this cannot possibly make ssh connection caching fail for a hostname it
used to work for.
gmail.com has some XMPP SRV records, but does not itself respond to XMPP
traffic, although it does accept connections on port 5222. So if a user
entered the wrong password, it would try all the SRVs and fall back to
trying gmail, and hang at that point.
This seems the right thing to do, not just a workaround.
I wanted to try to guard against it in Command.Add too, but it's a case of
garbage in, garbage out. Once Command.Add has been told it's dealing with a
dummy symlink, it goes and deletes it, and even though the object it
thinks it points to is not present in the annex, it's Command.Add is still
doing the right thing to go ahead and add the broken symlink. So the two
fixes I was able to put in will have to do.
I thought at first this was a Windows specific problem, but it's not;
this affects checking any non-bare repository exported via http. Which is
a potentially important use case!
The actual bug was the case where Right False was returned by the first url
short-curcuited later checks. But the whole method used felt like code
I'd no longer write, and the use of undefined was particularly disgusting.
So I rewrote it.
Also added an action display.
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Cabal does not seem to have a way to check if flag A is set and then, if
flag B is set, add a dep. Instead, it makes flag B get unset if the
dep is not available.
Note that've told me:
We'll see how it goes, but I think this could be a permanent offer for
your userbase. People using git-annex are clueful and won't be a big
support burden for us, so it's a win-win.
The icon files will be installed when running make install or cabal
install. Did not try to run update-icon-caches, since I think it's debian
specific, and dh_icons will take care of that for the Debian package.
Using the favicon as a 16x16 icon. At 24x24 the svg displays pretty well,
although the dotted lines are rather faint. The svg is ok at all higher
resolutions.
The standalone linux build auto-installs the desktop and autostart files
when run. I have not made it auto-install the icon file too, because
a) that would take more work to include them in the tarball and find them
b) it would need to be an install to ~/.icons/, and I don't know if that
really works!
annexLocations uses OS-native directory separators, but for an url,
it needs to use / even on Windows.
This is an ugly workaround. Could parameterize a lot of stuff in
annexLocations to fix it better. I suspect this is probably the only place
it's needed though.
migrate wants to know the associated filename, in order to look up
the new backend. Can't do that with --all
migrate --all --backend=newvalue could be useful to support, in the future.
I spent a long time worrying about this problem with --all, that it cannot
check .gitattributes files for numcopies settings, and so would not be
entirely safe to use. The solution turns out to be simple, just don't
implement `git annex drop --all`. drop is the only command that needs to
check numcopies (move can also reduce the number of copies, but explicitly
bypasses numcopies settings).
Use cases that might need a drop --all are probably better served by using
unused and dropunused, which already work in a bare repository.
The ssh setup first runs ssh to the real hostname, to probe if a ssh key is
needed. If one is, it generates a mangled hostname that uses a key. This
mangled hostname was being used to ssh into the server to set up the key.
But if the server already had the key set up, and it was locked down, the
setup would fail. This changes it to use the real hostname when sshing in
to set up the key, which avoids the problem.
Note that it will redundantly set up the key on the ssh server. But it's
the same key; the ssh key generation code uses the key if it already
exists.
A common failure mode for direct mode has been for files to end up still
stored in indirect mode. While I hope that doesn't happen anymore, fsck
should deal with it.
This is a compromise. I would like to nice every thread except for the
webapp thread, but it's not practical to do so. That would need every
thread to run as a bound thread, which could add significant overhead.
And any forkIO would escape the nice level.
Better to have a working test suite that doesn't test a few things
than no working test suite.
Most of the disabled stuff is because for some reason "git annex sync"
doesn't work when run inside the test suite. Looks like PATH problems.
The directory and rsync special remotes seem broken on Windows, or
maybe the tests are. Pretty sure the hook special remote test is broken.
Yeah, that didn't actually work. Got error messages like it couldn't read
from the control socket, so probably ssh doesn't really support that on
Windows, at least the cygwin ssh build I'm using.
This write permission frobbing is very appropriate in indirect mode,
since annexed objects are stored as immutably as can be managed. But not
in direct mode, where files should be able to be modified at any time.
There are already sufficient guards that there's no need to prevent a file
being written to while it's being ingested, in direct mode. The inode cache
will detect (most) types of modifications, and the add will fail. Then a
re-add should be done. The assistant should get another inotify change
event, and automatically add the new version of the file.
Fuzz tests have shown that git cat-file --batch sometimes stops running.
It's not yet known why (no error message; repo seems ok). But this is
something we can deal with in the CoProcess framework, since all 3 types of
long-running git processes should be restartable if they fail.
Note that, as implemented, only IO errors are caught. So an error thrown
by the reveiver, when it sees something that is not valid output from
git cat-file (etc) will not cause a restart. I don't want it to retry
if git commands change their output or are just outputting garbage.
This does mean that if the command did a partial output and crashed in the
middle, it would still not be restarted.
There is currently no guard against restarting a command repeatedly, if,
for example, it crashes repeatedly on startup.
The checkpresent hook can return either True or, False, or fail with a message
if it cannot successfully check the remote. Currently for glacier, when
--trust-glacier is not set, it always returns False. Crucially, in the case
when a file is in glacier, this is telling git-annex it's not there, so copy
re-uploads it. This is not desirable; it breaks using glacier-cli to retreive
that file later, and it wastes money/bandwidth.
What if it instead, when the glacier inventory is missing a
file, it returns False. And when the glacier inventory has a file, unless
--trust-glacier is set, it *fails*.
The result would be:
* `git annex copy --to glacier` would only send things not listed in inventory. If a file is listed in the inventory, `copy`
would complain that --trust-glacier` is not set, and not re-upload the file.
* `git annex drop` would only trust that glacier has a file when --trust-glacier is set. Behavior unchanged.
* `git annex move --to glacier`, when the file is not listed in inventory, would send the file, and delete it locally. Behavior unchanged.
* `git annex move --to glacier`, when the file is listed in inventory, would only trust that glacier has the file when --trust-glacier is set
* `git annex copy --from glacier` / `git annex get`, when the file is located in glacier, would trust the location log, and attempt to get the file from glacier.
Ie, when there'a a conflicted merge we may get foo.variant-xxxx
created in a merge. If a second merge conflict occurs on that new file,
it was not falling back to putting in the whole key (which should stop
the merge conflicts happening for good, but is ugly).
The current manual mode preferred content expression is:
"present and (((exclude=*/archive/* and exclude=archive/*) or (not (copies=archive:1 or copies=smallarchive:1))) or (not copies=semitrusted+:1))"
The old matcher misparsed this, to basically:
OR (present and (...)) (not copies=semitrusted+:1))
The paren handling and indeed the whole conversion from tokens to the
matcher was just wrong. The new way may not be the cleverest, but I think
it is correct, and you can see how it pattern matches structurally against
the expressions when parsing them.
That expression is now parsed to:
MAnd (MOp <function>)
(MOr (MOr (MAnd (MOp <function>) (MOp <function>)) (MNot (MOr (MOp <function>) (MOp <function>))))
(MNot (MOp <function>)))
Which appears correct, and behaves correct in testing.
Also threw in a simplifier, so the final generated Matcher has less
unnecessary clutter in it. Mostly so that I could more easily read &
confirm them.
Also, added a simple test of the Matcher to the test suite.
There is a small chance of badly formed preferred content expressions
behaving differently than before due to this rewrite.
I noticed that when my modem hung up and redialed, my xmpp client was left
sending messages into the void. This will also handle any idle
disconnection issues.
This bug was turned up by the test suite, running fsck in direct mode.
A repository was cloned, was put into direct mode, was fscked, and fsck
incorrectly said that no copy existed of a file, that was actually present
in origin.
This turned out to occur because fsck first did a Annex.Branch.change,
recording that it did not locally have the file. That was recorded in the
journal. Since neither the git annex direct not the fsck had yet needed to
read any info from the branch, but had only made changes to it, the
origin/git-annex branch was not yet merged in. So the journal got a
location log entry written to it, but this did not include
the location log info for the origin. When fsck then did a
Annex.Branch.get, it trusted the journal was cosnsitent, and returned it,
again w/o merging from origin/git-annex. This latter behavior is the
actual bug.
Refer to commit e9bfa8eaed for the thinking
behind it being ok to make a change to a file on the branch, without
first merging the branch. That thinking still stands. However, it means
that files in the journal cannot be trusted to be consistent if the branch
has not been merged. So, to fix, just enure the branch gets merged, even
when reading from the journal.
In tests, this does not seem to cause any extra merging. Except, of course,
in the one case described above. But git annex add, etc, are able to make
changes w/o first merging the branch.
The bug was in movein, which just replaceFile'd the file with a symlink,
even if it already had the desired content, before trying to pull the
content out of the annex and replace the symlink with it.
That was ok-ish for non conflicted merges, where if the file existed it would
be an old version of the content. But for conflicted merges, the automatic
merge resolver has already run, and will have already put the desired
content into the file for the local variant.
Also, made removeDirect not trust that the associated files map is correct.
Only if it can verify that another file has the content will it not move it
into .git/annex/objects.
As seen in this bug report, the lifted exception handling using the StateT
monad throws away state changes when an action throws an exception.
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/git_annex_fork_bombs_on_gpg_file/
.. Which can result in cached values being redundantly calculated, or other
possibly worse bugs when the annex state gets out of sync with reality.
This switches from a StateT AnnexState to a ReaderT (MVar AnnexState).
All changes to the state go via the MVar. So when an Annex action is
running inside an exception handler, and it makes some changes, they
immediately go into affect in the MVar. If it then throws an exception
(or even crashes its thread!), the state changes are still in effect.
The MonadCatchIO-transformers change is actually only incidental.
I could have kept on using lifted-base for the exception handling.
However, I'd have needed to write a new instance of MonadBaseControl
for the new monad.. and I didn't write the old instance.. I begged Bas
and he kindly sent it to me. Happily, MonadCatchIO-transformers is
able to derive a MonadCatchIO instance for my monad.
This is a deep level change. It passes the test suite! What could it break?
Well.. The most likely breakage would be to code that runs an Annex action
in an exception handler, and *wants* state changes to be thrown away.
Perhaps the state changes leaves the state inconsistent, or wrong. Since
there are relatively few places in git-annex that catch exceptions in the
Annex monad, and the AnnexState is generally just used to cache calculated
data, this is unlikely to be a problem.
Oh yeah, this change also makes Assistant.Types.ThreadedMonad a bit
redundant. It's now entirely possible to run concurrent Annex actions in
different threads, all sharing access to the same state! The ThreadedMonad
just adds some extra work on top of that, with its own MVar, and avoids
such actions possibly stepping on one-another's toes. I have not gotten
rid of it, but might try that later. Being able to run concurrent Annex
actions would simplify parts of the Assistant code.
Run the same code git-annex used to get the sha, including its sanity
checking. Much better than old grep. Should detect FreeBSD systems with
sha commands that output in stange format.
This after fielding a bug where git-annex was built with a sha256 program
whose output checked out, but was then run with one that output lines
like:
SHA256 (file) = <sha here>
Which it then parsed as having a SHA256 of "SHA256"!
Now the output of the command is required to be of the right length,
and contain only the right characters.
It's possible for files in indirect mode to have a direct mode mapping
file. Probably from when they were in direct mode. In this case,
toDirectGen tried to copy the content from the direct mode file that the
mapping said had it. But, being in indirect mode, it didn't really have the
content. So it did nothing. This fix makes it always move the content from
.git/annex/objects/ when it's there.
Observed that the pushed refs were received, but not merged into master.
The merger never saw an add event for these refs. Either git is not writing
to a new file and renaming it into place, or the inotify code didn't notice
that. Changed it to also watch for modify events and that seems to have
fixed it!
Note that the note on df88c51334 turned out
to be wrong. Multiple repository pairing over XMPP does work, because the
annex-uuid of the xmpp remote is updated to the uuid of the new repo
when pairing takes place. So the push from it is accepted. (And the other
UUIDs are listed in uuid.log, so pushes from those repositories also are
accepted of course.)
The root of the problem is that toInodeCache sees a non-symlink, and so
goes on and generates a new inode cache for the dummy symlink.
Any place that toInodeCache, or sameFileStatus, or genInodeCache are called
may need to deal with this case. Although many of them are ok. For example,
prepSendAnnex calls sameInodeCache, which calls genInodeCache.. but if
the file content is not present, the InodeCache generated for its standin
file is appropriately not the same, and so it returns Nothing.
I've audited some, but have to say I'm not happy with this; it should be
handled at the type level somehow, or a toInodeCache wrapper be used that
is aware of dummy symlinks.
(The Watcher already dealt with it, via the guardSymlinkStandin function.)
This is so git remotes on servers without git-annex installed can be used
to keep clients' git repos in sync.
This is a behavior change, but since annex-sync can be set to disable
syncing with a remote, I think it's acceptable.
assistant: Work around horrible, terrible, very bad behavior of
gnome-keyring, by not storing special-purpose ssh keys in ~/.ssh/*.pub.
Apparently gnome-keyring apparently will load and indiscriminately use such
keys in some cases, even if they are not using any of the standard ssh key
names. Instead store the keys in ~/.ssh/annex/, which gnome-keyring will
not check.
Note that neither I nor #debian-devel were able to quite reproduce this
problem, but I believe it exists, and that this fixes it. And it certianly
won't hurt anything..
Most remotes have meters in their implementations of retrieveKeyFile
already. Simply hooking these up to the transfer log makes that information
available. Easy peasy.
This is particularly valuable information for encrypted remotes, which
otherwise bypass the assistant's polling of temp files, and so don't have
good progress bars yet.
Still some work to do here (see progressbars.mdwn changes), but this
is entirely an improvement from the lack of progress bars for encrypted
downloads.
* addurl: Register transfer so the webapp can see it.
* addurl: Automatically retry downloads that fail, as long as some
additional content was downloaded.
Fixed by storing a list of cached inodes for a key, instead of just one.
Backwards compatability note: An old git-annex version will fail to parse
an inode cache file that has been written by a new version, and has
multiple items. It will succees if just one. So old git-annexes will have
even worse behavior when there are duplicated files, if that is possible.
I don't think it will be a problem. (Famous last words.)
Also, note that it doesn't expire old and unused inode caches for a key.
It would be possible to add this if needed; just look through the
associated files for a key and if there are more cached inodes, throw out
any not corresponding to associated files. Unless a file is being copied
repeatedly and the old copy deleted, this lack of expiry should not be a
problem.
* since this is a crippled filesystem anyway, git-annex doesn't use
symlinks on it
* so there's no reason to use the mixed case hash directories that we're
stuck using to avoid breaking everyone's symlinks to the content
* so we can do what is already done for all bare repos, and make non-bare
repos on crippled filesystems use the all-lower case hash directories
* which are, happily, all 3 letters long, so they cannot conflict with
mixed case hash directories
* so I was able to 100% fix this and even resuming `git annex add` in the
test case will recover and it will all just work.
This avoids commit churn by the assistant when eg,
replacing a file with a symlink.
But, just as importantly, it prevents the working tree being left with a
deleted file if git-annex, or perhaps the whole system, crashes at the
wrong time.
(It also probably avoids confusing displays in file managers.)
My test case for this bug is to have the assistant running and syncing to
a remote, and create a file in the annex. Then at the command line run
git annex drop. The assistant sees that the file is gone, sees it's a wanted
file, and downloads it from the remote.
With a directory special remote and a small file, I was seeing around 1
time in 3, a race where the file got unstaged from git after it got
downloaded.
Looking at what direct mode content managing code does in this case, it
deletes the symlink, and then adds the file content back. It would be
possible, sometimes, to avoid removing the symlink and do this atomically.
And I probably should.. but in some cases, particularly where the file
needs to be run through `cp` (multiple direct mode files with same
content), there's no way to atomically replace the symlink with the
content.
Anyway, the bug turns out to be something that the watcher does right for
indirect mode, but not for direct mode. When it got an add event, it
checked to see if this was a new file, or one we've already added. In the
latter case, no add event was queued. But that means that only the rm event
is queued, and so it unstages the file.
Fixed by queueing an add event even when the file is already in git.
Tested by running hundreds of drops in a loop; file remained staged.
