Eg, before with a .gitattributes like:
*.2 annex.numcopies=2
*.1 annex.numcopies=1
And foo.1 and foo.2 having the same content and key, git-annex drop foo.1 foo.2
would succeed, leaving just 1 copy, despite foo.2 needing 2 copies.
It dropped foo.1 first and then skipped foo.2 since its content was gone.
Now that the keys database includes locked files, this longstanding wart
can be fixed.
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Most of this is just refactoring. But, handleDropsFrom
did not verify that associated files from the keys db were still
accurate, and has now been fixed to.
A minor improvement to this would be to avoid calling catKeyFile
twice on the same file, when getting the numcopies and mincopies value,
in the common case where the same file has the highest value for both.
But, it avoids checking every associated file, so it will scale well to
lots of dups already.
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This was an old problem when the files were being added unlocked,
so the changelog mentions that being fixed. However, recently it's also
affected locked files.
The fix for locked files is kind of stupidly simple. moveAnnex already
handles populating unlocked files, and only does it when the object file
was not already present. So remove the redundant populateUnlockedFiles
call. (That call was added all the way back in
cfaac52b88, and has always been
unncessary.)
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moveAnnex only gets to that check if the object file was not present
before. So in the case where dup files are being added repeatedly,
it will only run the first time, and so there's no significant speedup
from doing it; all it avoids is a single sqlite lookup. Since MVar
accesses do have overhead, it's better to optimise for the common case,
where unlocked files are supported.
removeAnnex is less clear cut, but I think mostly is skipped running on
keys when the object has already been dropped, so similar reasoning
applies.
When the log has an activity that is not known, eg added by a future
version of git-annex, it used to be treated as no activity at all,
which would make git-annex expire think it should expire the repository,
despite it having some kind of recent activity.
Hopefully there will be no reason to add a new activity until enough
time has passed that this commit is in use everywhere.
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This will mostly just avoid a DB lookup, so things get marginally
faster. But in cases where there are many files using the same key, it
can be a more significant speedup.
Added overhead is one MVar lookup per call, which should be small
enough, since this happens after transferring or ingesting a file,
which is always a lot more work than that. It would be nice, though,
to move getGitConfig to AnnexRead, which there is an open todo about.
That seems very unlikely to happen, but still, it's possible it could.
And with the recent addition of locked files to the keys db, this could
be called by places that did not call it before, so it seems even more
important it's correct.
Adds an extra stat of the file, and is potentially racy, but both
problems are fixed by the unix-2.8.0 path. I have not tested that path
builds because that package is not yet released and it would be difficult
to install it since it's tightly tied to a ghc version.
