The setDifferences that got added to initialize turns out to make a git
commit, and before ensureCommit has been used. Thus, repo init can fail
when the system has a broken hostname etc.
Move the ensureCommit to the very first thing to avoid this kind of breakage.
The directory special remote was not affected in its normal configuration,
since annex-directory is an absolute path normally. But it could fail
when a relative path was used.
The git remote was affected even when an absolute path to it was used in
.git/config, since git-annex now converts all such paths to relative.
Since we started using this for git repos, when a remote was on another
drive, it resulted in a bogus relative path to it being used by git-annex,
which didn't work.
This is a nearly free feature; it piggybacks on the location log lookups
done for the numcopies stats. So, the only extra overhead is updating
the map of repository sizes.
However, I had to switch to Data.Map.Strict, which needs containers 0.5.
If backporting to wheezy, will probably need to revert this commit.
webapp: When adding another local repository, and combining it with the
current repository, the new repository's remote path was set to "." rather
than the path to the current repository. This was a reversion caused by the
relative path changes in 5.20150113.
git-checkignore refuses to work if any pathspec options are set. Urgh.
I audited the rest of git, and no other commands used by git-annex have
such limitations. Indeed, AFAICS, *all* other commands support
--literal-pathspecs. So, worked around this where git-checkignore is
called.
I don't quite understand the cause of the deadlock. It only occurred
when git-annex-shell transferinfo was being spawned over ssh to feed
download transfer progress back. And if I removed this line from
feedprogressback, the deadlock didn't occur:
bytes <- readSV v
The problem was not a leaked FD, as far as I could see. So what was it?
I don't know.
Anyway, this is a nice clean implementation, that avoids the deadlock.
Just fork off the async threads to handle filtering the stdout and stderr,
and let them clean up their handles whenever they decide to exit.
I've verified that the handles do get promptly closed, although a little
later than I would expect. Presumably that "little later" is what
was making waiting on the threads deadlock.
Despite the late exit, the last line of stdout and stderr appears where
I'd want it to, so I guess this is ok..
Stderr reader blocks waiting for all stderr, and so blocks the process ever
exiting.
I tried several ways to get around this, but no success yet. For now,
disable the stderr reader entirely.
