Upgrade other repos than the current one by running git-annex upgrade
inside them, which avoids problems with upgrade code making assumptions
that the cwd will be inside the repo being upgraded.
In particular, this fixes a problem where upgrading a v7 repo to v8 caused
an ugly git error message.
I actually could not find a way to make Upgrade.V7 work properly
without changing directory to the remote. Once I got git ls-files to work,
the git cat-file failed because :path can only be used in the current git
repo.
This means it will still be a .git file when git-annex init runs. That's
ok, the repo probably contains no annexed objects yet, and even if it does,
git-annex init does not care if symlinks in the worktree don't point to the
objects.
I made init, at the end, run the conversion code. Not really necessary
because the next git-annex command could do it just as well. But, this
avoids commands that don't normally write to the repo needing to write to
it, which might avoid some problem or other, and seems worth avoiding
generally.
While git ls-files can actually be used on a repo that is not in the
cwd, it works inconsistently. For example, this fails:
git --git-dir=../foo/.git --work-tree=../foo ls-files ../foo
But change some of the paths to absolute and it will succeed. That seems
like a bug in git.
OTOH, this succeeds:
git --git-dir=../foo/.git --work-tree=../foo ls-files
But, that lists paths relative to the top of the --work-tree,
rather than the usual listing them relative to the cwd. Because the cwd
is not in the repo. And so anything parsing the ls-files output of that
is likely to operate on files in the wrong location. Indeed, there is
code in Upgrade/ that has this problem!
md5sum is part of busybox, so is probably available unless it were compiled
out. If md5sum (or cut for that matter) is not available, it will
still use the whole path to $base, otherwise hash it.
Of course it's possible for md5sum to be available sometimes and not others
on the same system; in such an event the locales would be built twice for
the same bundle. The cleanup code will delete both sets once that
version of the bundle is upgraded.
git-annex config: Only allow configs be set that are ones git-annex
actually supports reading from repo-global config, to avoid confused users
trying to set other configs with this.
* whereis: If a remote fails to report on urls where a key
is located, display a warning, rather than giving up and not displaying
any information.
* When external special remotes fail but neglect to provide an error
message, say what request failed, which is better than displaying an
empty error message to the user.
Fix serious regression in gcrypt and encrypted git-lfs remotes.
Since version 7.20200202.7, git-annex incorrectly stored content
on those remotes without encrypting it.
Problem was, Remote.Git enumerates all git remotes, including git-lfs
and gcrypt. It then dispatches to those. So, Remote.List used the
RemoteConfigParser from Remote.Git, instead of from git-lfs or gcrypt,
and that parser does not know about encryption fields, so did not
include them in the ParsedRemoteConfig. (Also didn't include other
fields specific to those remotes, perhaps chunking etc also didn't
get through.)
To fix, had to move RemoteConfig parsing down into the generate methods
of each remote, rather than doing it in Remote.List.
And a consequence of that was that ParsedRemoteConfig had to change to
include the RemoteConfig that got parsed, so that testremote can
generate a new remote based on an existing remote.
(I would have rather fixed this just inside Remote.Git, but that was not
practical, at least not w/o re-doing work that Remote.List already did.
Big ugly mostly mechanical patch seemed preferable to making git-annex
slower.)
* init --version: When the version given is one that automatically
upgrades to a newer version, use the newer version instead.
* Auto upgrades from older repo versions, like v5, now jump right to v8.
Fix some cases where handling of keys with extensions varied depending on
the locale.
A filename with a unicode extension would before generate a key with an
extension in a unicode locale, but not in LANG=C, because the extension
was not all alphanumeric. Also the the length of the extension could be
counted differently depending on the locale.
In a non-unicode locale, git-annex migrate would see that the extension
was not all alphanumeric and want to "upgrade" it. Now that doesn't happen.
As far as backwards compatability, this does mean that unicode
extensions are counted by the number of bytes, not number of characters.
So, if someone is using unicode extensions, they may find git-annex
stops using them when adding files, because their extensions are too
long. Keys already in their repo with the "too long" extensions will
still work though, so this only prevents adding the same content with
the same extension generating the same key. Documented this by
documenting that annex.maxextensionlength is a number of bytes.
Also, if a filename has an extension that is not valid utf-8 and the
locale is utf-8, the extension will be allowed now, and an old
git-annex, in the same locale would not, and would also want to
"upgrade" that.
Unfortunately, cabal puts the binary in a very complicated path
and does not provide any good way to get it out, leaving no good choice
except to use find.
It may be possible to use cabal (new-)install --symlink-bindir,
and ask it to symlink to pwd, but with my older version of cabal,
that does not work.
The stack branch will probably also break once it uses a newer cabal,
didn't try to deal with that.
* 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.
Fix support for repositories tuned with annex.tune.branchhash1=true,
including --all not working and git-annex log not displaying anything for
annexed files.
fsck --from remote: Fix a concurrency bug that could make it incorrectly
detect that content in the remote is corrupt, and remove it, resulting in
data loss.
* When git-annex is built with a ssh that does not support ssh connection
caching, default annex.sshcaching to false, but let the user override it.
* Improve warning messages further when ssh connection caching cannot
be used, to clearly state why.
This is untested because of rain, also I am operating from truncated
copiler error messages in a bug report that also doesn't mention what the
library version is. Still, it should work.
May break builds with old ghc, in particular DerivingStrategies is
I think fairly new? The pragmas could be ifdefed if necessary. Works with
ghc 8.6.5.
A warning message is unsatisfying. But erroring out is too hard a failure,
especially since it may well work fine if the user has enabled passwordless
ssh.
I did think about falling back to one ssh connection at a time in this
case, but it would have needed a rework of every ssh call, which
seems far overboard for such a niche problem. There's no single place where
git-annex runs ssh, so no one place that it could block a concurrent call
on a semaphore. And, even if it did fall back to one ssh connection at a
time, it seems to me that doing so without warning the user about the
problem just invites bug reports like "git-annex is ignoring my -J2 and
only doing one download at a time". So a warning is needed, and I suppose
is good enough.
