Do not sync with a faster remote that was not specified.
That old behavior was only documented in the changelog, and was certianly
surprising. It also meant adding --fast made it slower..
* Added sync --only-annex, which syncs the git-annex branch and annexed
content but leaves managing the other git branches up to you.
* Added annex.synconlyannex git config setting, which can also be set with
git-annex config to configure sync in all clones of the repo.
Use case is then the user has their own git workflow, and wants to use
git-annex without disrupting that, so they sync --only-annex to get the
git-annex stuff in sync in addition to their usual git workflow.
When annex.synconlyannex is set, --not-only-annex can be used to override
it.
It's not entirely clear what --only-annex --commit or --only-annex
--push should do, and I left that combination not documented because I
don't know if I might want to change the current behavior, which is that
such options do not override the --only-annex. My gut feeling is that
there is no good reasons to use such combinations; if you want to use
your own git workflow, you'll be doing your own committing and pulling
and pushing.
A subtle question is, how should import/export special remotes be handled?
Importing updates their remote tracking branch and merges it into master.
If --only-annex prevented that git branch stuff, then it would prevent
exporting to the special remote, in the case where it has changes that
were not imported yet, because there would be a unresolved conflict.
I decided that it's best to treat the fact that there's a remote tracking
branch for import/export as an implementation detail in this case. The more
important thing is that an import/export special remote is entirely annexed
content, and so it makes a lot of sense that --only-annex will still sync
with it.
Added the ability to run one job per CPU (core), by setting annex.jobs=cpus,
or using option --jobs=cpus or -Jcpus.
Built with future expansion in mind, including not defaulting matching on
Concurrency so more constructors can later be added, and using "cpu"
instead of "0".
Users may want sync to only export, or only import and this is broadly
analagous to push and pull, so it makes sense to use the same
configuration for it.
This relies on git ls-files --with-tree, which I'm using in a way that
its man page does not document. Hm. I emailed the git list to try to get
the docs improved, but at least the git test suite does test the same
kind of use case I'm using here.
Performance impact when not in an adjusted branch is limited to some
additional MVar accesses, and a single git call to determine the name of
the current branch. So very minimal.
When in an adjusted branch, the performance impact is
in Annex.WorkTree.lookupFile, which starts doing an equal amount of work
for files that didn't exist as it already did for files that were
unlocked.
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Also deletes any tagged pushes that the assistant might have done,
since those would also prevent resetting a branch back.
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* Added annex.resolvemerge configuration, which can be set to false to
disable the usual automatic merge conflict resolution done by git-annex
sync and the assistant.
* sync: Added --no-resolvemerge option.
Note that disabling merge conflict resolution is probably not a good idea
in a direct mode repo or adjusted branch. Since updates to both are done
outside the usual work tree, if it fails the tree is not left in a
conflicted state, and it would be hard to manually resolve the conflict.
Still, made annex.resolvemerge be supported in those cases for consistency.
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The former can be useful to make remotes that don't get fully synced with
local changes, which comes up in a lot of situations.
The latter was mostly added for symmetry, but could be useful (though less
likely to be).
Implementing `remote.<name>.annex-pull` was a bit tricky, as there's no one
place where git-annex pulls/fetches from remotes. I audited all
instances of "fetch" and "pull". A few cases were left not checking this
config:
* Git.Repair can try to pull missing refs from a remote, and if the local
repo is corrupted, that seems a reasonable thing to do even though
the config would normally prevent it.
* Assistant.WebApp.Gpg and Remote.Gcrypt and Remote.Git do fetches
as part of the setup process of a remote. The config would probably not
be set then, and having the setup fail seems worse than honoring it if it
is already set.
I have not prevented all the code that does a "merge" from merging branches
from remotes with remote.<name>.annex-pull=false. That could perhaps
be done, but it would need a way to map from branch name to remote name,
and the way refspecs work makes that hard to get really correct. So if the
user fetches manually, the git-annex branch will get merged, for example.
Anther way of looking at/justifying this is that the setting is called
"annex-pull", not "annex-merge".
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.. which can be set to true to make git annex sync default to --content.
This may become the default at some point in the future.
As well as being configuable by git config, it can be configured by
git-annex config to control the default behavior in all clones of a
repository.
Had to add a separate --no-content switch to we can tell if it's been
explicitly set, and should override annex.synccontent. If --content was the
default, this complication would not be necessary.
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Any config names can be set using this; git-annex commands will only look
at specific ones that make sense and are worth the overhead of querying the
branch.
This might also be useful for storing whatever other config-type stuff the
user might want to shove into the git-annex branch.
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i found that most man pages only had references to the main git-annex
manpage, which i stillfind pretty huge and hard to navigate through.
i tried to sift through all the man pages and add cross-references
between relevant pages. my general rule of thumb is that links should
be both ways unless one of the pages is a more general page that would
become ridiculously huge if all backlinks would be added
(git-annex-preferred-content comes to mind).
i have also make the links one per line as this is how it was done in
the metadata pages so far.
i did everything but the plumbing, utility and test commands, although
some of those are linked from the other commands so cross-links were
added there as well.
