As long as all code imports Utility.Aeson rather than Data.Aeson,
and no Strings that may contain utf-8 characters are used for eg, object
keys via T.pack, this is guaranteed to fix the problem everywhere that
git-annex generates json.
It's kind of annoying to need to wrap ToJSON with a ToJSON', especially
since every data type that has a ToJSON instance has to be ported over.
However, that only took 50 lines of code, which is worth it to ensure full
coverage. I initially tried an alternative approach of a newtype FileEncoded,
which had to be used everywhere a String was fed into aeson, and chasing
down all the sites would have been far too hard. Did consider creating an
intentionally overlapping instance ToJSON String, and letting ghc fail
to build anything that passed in a String, but am not sure that wouldn't
pollute some library that git-annex depends on that happens to use ToJSON
String internally.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
See the big comment at the bottom of Command.Drop for the full details.
(The --safe/--unsafe options were never released.)
This commit was sponsored by Jake Vosloo on Patreon.
move: Added --safe option, which makes move honor numcopies settings.
Also --unsafe enables the default behavior, anticipating that the
default may one day change.
This commit was sponsored by Ethan Aubin.
When adding a new version of a file, and annex.genmetadata is enabled,
don't copy the data metadata from the old version of the file, instead use
the mtime of the file. Rationalle being that the user has requested to
generate metadata and so would expect to get the new mtime into metadata.
Also, avoid warning about copying metadata when all the old metadata is
date metadata. Which was rather the harder part.
This commit was sponsored by Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on Patreon.
