When importing from a special remote, support preferred content expressions
that use terms that match on keys (eg "present", "copies=1"). Such terms
are ignored when importing, since the key is not known yet.
When "standard" or "groupwanted" is used, the terms in those
expressions also get pruned accordingly.
This does allow setting preferred content to "not (copies=1)" to make a
special remote into a "source" type of repository. Importing from it will
import all files. Then exporting to it will drop all files from it.
In the case of setting preferred content to "present", it's pruned on
import, so everything gets imported from it. Then on export, it's applied,
and everything in it is left on it, and no new content is exported to it.
Since the old behavior on these preferred content expressions was for
importtree to error out, there's no backwards compatability to worry about.
Except that sync/pull/etc will now import where before it errored out.
And avoid migrate --update/--aply migrating when the new key was already
present in the repository, and got dropped. Luckily, the location log
allows distinguishing from the new key never having been present!
That is mostly useful for --apply because otherwise dropped files would
keep coming back until the old objects were reaped as unused. But it
seemed to make sense to also do it for --update. for consistency in edge
cases if nothing else. One case where --update can use it is when one
branch got migrated earlier, and we dropped the file, and now another
branch has migrated the same file.
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The git log is outputting the diff, but this only looks at the new
files. When we have a new file, we can get the old filename by just
replacing "new" with "old". And then use branchFileRef to refer to it
allows catting the old key.
While this does have to skip past the old files in the diff, it's still
faster than calling git diff separately.
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This is most of the way there, but not quite working.
The layout of migrate.tree/ needs to be changed to follow this approach.
git log will list all the files in tree order, so the new layout needs
to alternate old and new keys. Can that be done? git may not document
tree order, or may not preserve it here.
Alternatively, change to using git log --format=raw and extract
the tree header from that, then use
git diff --raw $tree:migrate.tree/old $tree:migrate.tree/new
That will be a little more expensive, but only when there are lots of
migrations.
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This will allow distributed migration: Start a migration in one clone of
a repo, and then update other clones.
commitMigration is a bit of a bear.. There is some inversion of control
that needs some TMVars. Also streamLogFile's finalizer does not handle
recording the trees, so an interrupt at just the wrong time can cause
migration.log to be emptied but the git-annex branch not updated.
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Noticed that Semigroup instance of Map is not suitable to use
for MapLog. For example, it behaved like this:
ghci> parseTrustLog "foo 1 timestamp=10\nfoo 2 timestamp=11" <> parseTrustLog "foo X timestamp=12"
fromList [(UUID "foo",LogEntry {changed = VectorClock 11s, value = SemiTrusted})]
Which was wrong, it lost the newer DeadTrusted value.
Luckily, nothing used that Semigroup when operating on a MapLog. And this
provides a safe instance.
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This can take a lot of memory. I decided to violate the usual rule in
git-annex that it operate in constant memory no matter how many annexed
objects. In this case, it would be hard to be fast without using a big
map of the location logs. The main difficulty here is that there can be
many git-annex branches and it needs to display a consistent view at a
point in time, which means merging information from multiple git-annex
branches.
I have not checked if there are any laziness leaks in this code. It
takes 1 gb to run in my big repo, which is around what I estimated
before writing it.
2 options that are documented are not yet implemented.
Small bug: With eg --when=1h, it will display at 12:00 then 1:10 if the
next change after 12:59 is then. Then it waits until after 2:10 to
display the next change. It ought to wait until after 2:00.
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Factored out overLocationLogs from CmdLine.Seek, which can calculate this
pretty fast even in a large repo. In my big repo, the time to run git-annex
info went up from 1.33s to 8.5s.
Note that the "backend usage" stats are for annexed files in the working
tree only, not all annexed files. This new data source would let that be
changed, but that would be a confusing behavior change. And I cannot
retitle it either, out of fear something uses the current title (eg parsing
the json).
Also note that, while time says "402108maxresident" in my big repo now,
up from "54092maxresident", top shows the RES constant at 64mb, and it
was 48mb before. So I don't think there is a memory leak. I tried using
deepseq to force full evaluation of addKeyCopies and memory use didn't
change, which also says no memory leak. And indeed, not even calling
addKeyCopies resulted in the same memory use. Probably the increased memory
usage is buffering the stream of data from git in overLocationLogs.
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In particular, the mergedrefs file was written with CR added to each line,
but read without CRLF handling. This resulted in each update of the file
adding CR to each line in it, growing the number of lines, while also
preventing the optimisation from working, so it remerged unncessarily.
writeFile and readFile do NewlineMode translation on Windows. But the
ByteString conversion prevented that from happening any longer.
I've audited for other cases of this, and found three more
(.git/annex/index.lck, .git/annex/ignoredrefs, and .git/annex/import/). All
of those also only prevent optimisations from working. Some other files are
currently both read and written with ByteString, but old git-annex may have
written them with NewlineMode translation. Other files are at risk for
breakage later if the reader gets converted to ByteString.
This is a minimal fix, but should be enough, as long as I remember to use
fileLines when splitting a ByteString into lines. This leaves files written
using ByteString without CR added, but that's ok because old git-annex has
no difficulty reading such files.
When the mergedrefs file has gotten lines that end with "\r\r\r\n", this
will eventually clean it up. Each update will remove a single trailing CR.
Note that S8.lines is still used in eg Command.Unused, where it is parsing
git show-ref, and similar in Git/*. git commands don't include CR in their
output so that's ok.
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Minor optimisation, but a win in every case, except for a couple where
it's a wash.
Note that replaceFile still takes a FilePath, because it needs to
operate on Chars to truncate unicode filenames properly.
Note the use of fromString and toString from Data.ByteString.UTF8 dated
back to commit 9b93278e8a. Back then it
was using the dataenc package for base64, which operated on Word8 and
String. But with the switch to sandi, it uses ByteString, and indeed
fromB64' and toB64' were already using ByteString without that
complication. So I think there is no risk of such an encoding related
breakage.
I also tested the case that 9b93278e8a
fixed:
git-annex metadata -s foo='a …' x
git-annex metadata x
metadata x
foo=a …
In Remote.Helper.Encryptable, it was avoiding using Utility.Base64
because of that UTF8 conversion. Since that's no longer done, it can
just use it now.
Avoid conversion from ByteString to String for urls that will just be
converted right back to ByteString to go into the database.
Also setTempUrl is not used by importfeed, so avoid checking for temp
urls in this code path.
This benchmarks as only a small improvement. From 2.99s to 2.78s
when populating a database with 33k urls.
Note that it does not seem worth replacing URLString with URLByteString
generally, because the ways urls are used all entails either parseURI,
which takes a string, or passing a parameter to eg curl, which also is
currently a string.
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Fix behavior when importing a tree from a directory remote when the
directory does not exist. An empty tree was imported, rather than the
import failing. Merging that tree would delete every file in the
branch, if those files had been exported to the directory before.
The problem was that dirContentsRecursive returned [] when the directory
did not exist. Better for it to throw an exception. But in commit
74f0d67aa3 back in 2012, I made it never
theow exceptions, because exceptions throw inside unsafeInterleaveIO become
untrappable when the list is being traversed.
So, changed it to list the contents of the directory before entering
unsafeInterleaveIO. So exceptions are thrown for the directory. But still
not if it's unable to list the contents of a subdirectory. That's less of a
problem, because the subdirectory does exist (or if not, it got removed
after being listed, and it's ok to not include it in the list). A
subdirectory that has permissions that don't allow listing it will have its
contents omitted from the list still.
(Might be better to have it return a type that includes indications of
errors listing contents of subdirectories?)
The rest of the changes are making callers of dirContentsRecursive
use emptyWhenDoesNotExist when they relied on the behavior of it not
throwing an exception when the directory does not exist. Note that
it's possible some callers of dirContentsRecursive that used to ignore
permissions problems listing a directory will now start throwing exceptions
on them.
The fix to the directory special remote consisted of not making its
call in listImportableContentsM use emptyWhenDoesNotExist. So it will
throw an exception as desired.
Sponsored-by: Joshua Antonishen on Patreon
And annex.largefiles and annex.addunlocked.
Also git-annex matchexpression --explain explains why its input
expression matches or fails to match.
When there is no limit, avoid explaining why the lack of limit
matches. This is also done when no preferred content expression is set,
although in a few cases it defaults to a non-empty matcher, which will
be explained.
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Speeds up sync in an adjusted branch by avoiding re-adjusting the branch
unncessarily, particularly when it is adjusted with --hide-missing or
--unlock-present.
When there are a lot of files, that was the majority of the time of a
--no-content sync.
Uses a log file, which is updated when content presence changes. This
adds a little bit of overhead to every file get/drop when on such an
adjusted branch. The overhead is minimal for get of any size of file,
but might be noticable for drop in some cases. It seems like a reasonable
trade-off. It would be possible to update the log file only at the end, but
then it would not happen if the command is interrupted.
When not in an adjusted branch, there should be no additional overhead.
(getCurrentBranch is an MVar read, and it avoids the MVar read of
getGitConfig.)
Note that this does not deal with situations such as:
git checkout master, git-annex get, git checkout adjusted branch,
git-annex sync. The sync won't know that the adjusted branch needs to be
updated. Dealing with that would add overhead to operation in non-adjusted
branches, which I don't like. Also, there are other situations like having
two adjusted branches that both need to be updated like this, and switching
between them and sync not updating.
This does mean a behavior change to sync, since it did previously deal
with those situations. But, the documentation did not say that it did.
The man pages only talk about sync updating the adjusted branch after
it transfers content.
I did consider making sync keep track of content it transferred (and
dropped) and only update the adjusted branch then, not to catch up to other
changes made previously. That would perform better. But it seemed rather
hard to implement, and also it would have problems with races with a
concurrent get/drop, which this implementation avoids.
And it seemed pretty likely someone had gotten used to get/drop followed by
sync updating the branch. It seems much less likely someone is switching
branches, doing get/drop, and then switching back and expecting sync to update
the branch.
Re-running git-annex adjust still does a full re-adjusting of the branch,
for anyone who needs that.
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Speeds up eg git-annex sync --content by up to 50%. When it does not need
to transfer or drop anything, it now noops a lot more quickly.
I didn't see anything else in sync --content noop loop that could really
be sped up. It has to cat git objects to keys, stat object files, etc.
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For simplicity, I've not tried to make it handle History yet, so when
there is a history, a full import will still be done. Probably the right
way to handle history is to first diff from the current tree to the last
imported tree. Then, diff from the current tree to each of the
historical trees, and recurse through the history diffing from child tree
to parent tree.
I don't think that will need a record of the previously imported
historical trees, and so Logs.Import doesn't store them. Although I did
leave room for future expansion in that log just in case.
Next step will be to change importTree to importChanges and modify
recordImportTree et all to handle it, by using adjustTree.
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This does, as a side effect, make long notes in json output not
be indented. The indentation is only needed to offset them
underneath the display of the file they apply to, so that's ok.
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This is by no means complete, but escaping filenames in actionItemDesc does
cover most commands.
Note that for ActionItemBranchFilePath, the value is branch:file, and I
choose to only quote the file part (if necessary). I considered quoting the
whole thing. But, branch names cannot contain control characters, and while
they can contain unicode, git coes not quote unicode when displaying branch
names. So, it would be surprising for git-annex to quote unicode in a
branch name.
The find command is the most obvious command that still needs to be
dealt with. There are probably other places that filenames also get
displayed, eg embedded in error messages.
Some other commands use ActionItemOther with a filename, I think that
ActionItemOther should either be pre-sanitized, or should explicitly not
be used for filenames, so that needs more work.
When --json is used, unicode does not get escaped, but control
characters were already escaped in json.
(Key escaping may turn out to be needed, but I'm ignoring that for now.)
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A repository can have a newline in its description due to being in a
directory containing a newline, or due to git-annex describe being
passed a string with a newline in it for some reason. Putting that
newline in uuid.log breaks its format.
So, escape the newline when it enters uuid.log, to \n
This is a one-way escaping, it is not converted back to a newline
when reading the log. If it were, commands like git-annex info and
whereis would display a multi-line description, which could be confusing
to read.
And, implementing roundtripping would necessarily cause problems if an
old version of git-annex were used to set a description that contained
whatever special character is used to escape the \n. Eg, a \ or if
it used the ! prefix before base64 data that is used in some other logs,
the ! character. Then the description set by the old git-annex would not
roundtrip.
There just doesn't seem to be any benefit of roundtripping newlines through,
so why bother? And, git often displays \n for newline when a filename
contains a newline, so git-annex doing it in this case seems sorta ok
by analogy to git.
(Some other git-annex logs can also have newlines put into them if the
user really wants to break git-annex. For example:
git-annex config annex.largefiles "foo
bar"
The full list is probably config.log, remote.log, group.log,
preferred-content.log, required-content.log,
group-preferred-content.log, schedule.log. Probably there is no
good reason to use a newline in any of these, and the breakage is
probably limited to the bad data the user put in not coming back out.
And users can write any garbage to log files themselves manually in any
case. So, I am not going to address all of those at this time. If a
problem such as this one with the newline in the repository path comes
up, it can be dealt with on a case by case basis.)
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An adjusted view branch has a name like
"refs/heads/adjusted/views/master(author=_)(unlocked)", so it is a view
branch that has been converted to an adjusted branch.
Made Logs.View support such branch names. So now git-annex sync and
pre-commit handle updating metadata on commit in such a branch.
Much remains to be done to fully support adjusted view branches,
including actually applying the adjustment when updating the view branch.
Sponsored-by: Graham Spencer on Patreon
* sync: Avoid pushing view branches to remotes.
* Changed the name of view branches to include the parent branch.
Existing view branches checked out using an old name will still work.
It does not seem useful for sync to push view branches around, because
the information in a view branch can entirely be derived from other
information in git. And sync doesn't push adjusted branches around either.
The better view branch names make it more in line with adjusted branch
names, but were also needed to make fromViewBranch be able to return the
original branch name.
Kept the old view branch names still working. But, when those branches
exist in a repo, sync will still try to push them as before. Avoiding
that would need more complicated and/or expensive changes to sync.
Sponsored-By: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on Patreon
* view: New field?=glob and ?tag syntax that includes a directory "_"
in the view for files that do not have the specified metadata set.
* Added annex.viewunsetdirectory git config to change the name of the
"_" directory in a view.
When in a view using the new syntax, old git-annex will fail to parse the
view log. It errors with "Not in a view.", which is not ideal. But that
only affects view commands.
annex.viewunsetdirectory is included in the View for a couple of reasons.
One is to avoid needing to warn the user that it should not be changed when
in a view, since that would confuse git-annex. Another reason is that it
helped with plumbing the value through to some pure functions.
annex.viewunsetdirectory is actually mangled the same as any other view
directory. So if it's configured to something like "N/A", there won't be
multiple levels of directories, which would also confuse git-annex.
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Fix a hang that occasionally occurred during commands such as move.
(A bug introduced in 10.20220927, in
commit 6a3bd283b8)
The restage.log was kept locked while running a complex index refresh
action. In an unusual situation, that action could need to write to the
restage log, which caused a deadlock.
The solution is a two-stage process. First the restage.log is moved to a
work file, which is done with the lock held. Then the content of the work
file is read and processed, which happens without the lock being held.
This is all done in a crash-safe manner.
Note that streamRestageLog may not be fully safe to run concurrently
with itself. That's ok, because restagePointerFiles uses it with the
index lock held, so only one can be run at a time.
streamRestageLog does delete the restage.old file at the end without
locking. If a calcRestageLog is run concurrently, it will either see the
file content before it was deleted, or will see it's missing. Either is
ok, because at most this will cause calcRestageLog to report more
work remains to be done than there is.
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move: Fix openFile crash with -J
This does make them a bit slower, although usually the log file is not
very big, so even when it's being rewritten, they will not block for
long taking the lock. Still, little slowdowns may add up when moving a lot
file files.
A less expensive fix would be to use something lower level than openFile
that does not check if the file is already open for write by another
thread. But GHC does not seem to provide anything convenient; even mkFD
checks for a writing thread.
fullLines is no longer necessary since these functions no longer will
read the file while it's being written.
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When pointer files need to be restaged, they're first written to the
log, and then when the restage operation runs, it reads the log. This
way, if the git-annex process is interrupted before it can do the
restaging, a later git-annex process can do it.
Currently, this lets a git-annex get/drop command be interrupted and
then re-ran, and as long as it gets/drops additional files, it will
clean up after the interrupted command. But more changes are
needed to make it easier to restage after an interrupted process.
Kept using the git queue to run the restage action, even though the
list of files that it builds up for that action is not actually used by
the action. This could perhaps be simplified to make restaging a cleanup
action that gets registered, rather than using the git queue for it. But
I wasn't sure if that would cause visible behavior changes, when eg
dropping a large number of files, currently the git queue flushes
periodically, and so it restages incrementally, rather than all at the
end.
In restagePointerFiles, it reads the restage log twice, once to get
the number of files and size, and a second time to process it.
This seemed better than reading the whole file into memory, since
potentially a huge number of files could be in there. Probably the OS
will cache the file in memory and there will not be much performance
impact. It might be better to keep running tallies in another file
though. But updating that atomically with the log seems hard.
Also note that it's possible for calcRestageLog to see a different file
than streamRestageLog does. More files may be added to the log in
between. That is ok, it will only cause the filterprocessfaster heuristic to
operate with slightly out of date information, so it may make the wrong
choice for the files that got added and be a little slower than ideal.
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Like the comment says, this works without locking. It looks like I
originally copied another function and forgot to remove the locking.
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WIP: This is mostly complete, but there is a problem: createDirectoryUnder
throws an error when annex.dbdir is set to outside the git repo.
annex.dbdir is a workaround for filesystems where sqlite does not work,
due to eg, the filesystem not properly supporting locking.
It's intended to be set before initializing the repository. Changing it
in an existing repository can be done, but would be the same as making a
new repository and moving all the annexed objects into it. While the
databases get recreated from the git-annex branch in that situation, any
information that is in the databases but not stored in the branch gets
lost. It may be that no information ever gets stored in the databases
that cannot be reconstructed from the branch, but I have not verified
that.
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Added annex.alwayscompact setting which can be unset to speed up writes to
the git-annex branch in some cases.
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Currently this is not an improvement, but it allows for optimising
appendJournalFile later. With an optimised appendJournalFile, this will
greatly speed up access patterns like git-annex addurl of a lot of urls
to the same key, where the log file can grow rather large. Appending
rather than re-writing the journal file for each line can save a lot of
disk writes.
It still has to read the current journal or branch file, to check
if it can append to it, and so when the journal file does not exist yet,
it can write the old content from the branch to it. Probably the re-reads
are better cached by the filesystem than repeated writes. (If the
re-reads turn out to keep performance bad, they could be eliminated, at
the cost of not being able to compact the log when replacing old
information in it. That could be enabled by a switch.)
While the immediate need is to affect addurl writes, it was implemented
at the level of presence logs, so will also perhaps speed up location logs.
The only added overhead is the call to isNewInfo, which only needs to
compare ByteStrings. Helping to balance that out, it avoids compactLog
when it's able to append.
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Use cases include using git-annex init --no-autoenable and then going back
and enabling the special remotes that have autoenable configured. As well
as just querying to remember which ones have it enabled.
It lists all special remotes that have autoenable=yes whether currently
enabled or not. And it can be used with --json.
I pondered making this "git-annex info autoenable", but that seemed wrong
because then if the use has a directory named "autoenable", it's unclear
what they are asking for. (Although "git-annex info remote" may be
similarly unclear.) Making it an option does mean that it can't be provided
via --batch though.
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Ignore annex.numcopies set to 0 in gitattributes or git config, or by
git-annex numcopies or by --numcopies, since that configuration would make
git-annex easily lose data. Same for mincopies.
This is a continuation of the work to make data only be able to be lost
when --force is used. It earlier led to the --trust option being disabled,
and similar reasoning applies here.
Most numcopies configs had docs that strongly discouraged setting it to 0
anyway. And I can't imagine a use case for setting to 0. Not that there
might not be one, but it's just so far from the intended use case of
git-annex, of managing and storing your data, that it does not seem like
it makes sense to cater to such a hypothetical use case, where any
git-annex drop can lose your data at any time.
Using a smart constructor makes sure every place avoids 0. Note that this
does mean that NumCopies is for the configured desired values, and not the
actual existing number of copies, which of course can be 0. The name
configuredNumCopies is used to make that clear.
Sponsored-by: Brock Spratlen on Patreon
takeByteString can only be used at the end of a parser, not before other
input. This was a dumb enough mistake that I audited the rest of the
code base for similar mistakes. Pity that attoparsec cannot avoid it at
the type level.
Fixes git-annex forget propagation between repositories. (reversion
introduced in version 7.20190122)
Sponsored-by: Brock Spratlen on Patreon
The upgrade from V9 uses this to avoid an automatic upgrade until 1 year
after the V9 update. It can also be used in future such situations.
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Capstone to this feature. Any transitions that have been performed on an
unmerged remote ref but not on the local git-annex branch, or vice-versa
have to be applied on the fly when reading files.
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It would be difficult to make Annex.Branch.files query the unmerged
git-annex branches. Might be possible, similar to what was discussed in
7f6b2ca49c but again I decided to make it
not do anything in that situation to start with before adding such a
complicated thing.
git-annex info uses it when getting info about a repostory. The choices
were to make that fail with an error, or display the info it can, and
change the output slightly for the bits of info it cannot access. While
that is a behavior change, and I want to avoid any behavior changes due
to unmerged git-annex branches in a read-only repo, displaying a message
that is not a number seems unlikely to break anything that was consuming
a number, any worse than throwing an exception would. Probably.
Also git-annex unused --from origin is made to throw an error, but
it would fail later anyway when trying to write to the unused log files.
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This eliminates the distinction between decodeBS and decodeBS', encodeBS
and encodeBS', etc. The old implementation truncated at NUL, and the
primed versions had to do extra work to avoid that problem. The new
implementation does not truncate at NUL, and is also a lot faster.
(Benchmarked at 2x faster for decodeBS and 3x for encodeBS; more for the
primed versions.)
Note that filepath-bytestring 1.4.2.1.8 contains the same optimisation,
and upgrading to it will speed up to/fromRawFilePath.
AFAIK, nothing relied on the old behavior of truncating at NUL. Some
code used the faster versions in places where I was sure there would not
be a NUL. So this change is unlikely to break anything.
Also, moved s2w8 and w82s out of the module, as they do not involve
filesystem encoding really.
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* Deal with clock skew, both forwards and backwards, when logging
information to the git-annex branch.
* GIT_ANNEX_VECTOR_CLOCK can now be set to a fixed value (eg 1)
rather than needing to be advanced each time a new change is made.
* Misuse of GIT_ANNEX_VECTOR_CLOCK will no longer confuse git-annex.
When changing a file in the git-annex branch, the vector clock to use is now
determined by first looking at the current time (or GIT_ANNEX_VECTOR_CLOCK
when set), and comparing it to the newest vector clock already in use in
that file. If a newer time stamp was already in use, advance it forward by
a second instead.
When the clock is set to a time in the past, this avoids logging with
an old timestamp, which would risk that log line later being ignored in favor
of "newer" line that is really not newer.
When a log entry has been made with a clock that was set far ahead in the
future, this avoids newer information being logged with an older timestamp
and so being ignored in favor of that future-timestamped information.
Once all clocks get fixed, this will result in the vector clocks being
incremented, until finally enough time has passed that time gets back ahead
of the vector clock value, and then it will return to usual operation.
(This latter situation is not ideal, but it seems the best that can be done.
The issue with it is, since all writers will be incrementing the last
vector clock they saw, there's no way to tell when one writer made a write
significantly later in time than another, so the earlier write might
arbitrarily be picked when merging. This problem is why git-annex uses
timestamps in the first place, rather than pure vector clocks.)
Advancing forward by 1 second is somewhat arbitrary. setDead
advances a timestamp by just 1 picosecond, and the vector clock could
too. But then it would interfere with setDead, which wants to be
overrulled by any change. So it could use 2 picoseconds or something,
but that seems weird. It could just as well advance it forward by a
minute or whatever, but then it would be harder for real time to catch
up with the vector clock when forward clock slew had happened.
A complication is that many log files contain several different peices of
information, and it may be best to only use vector clocks for the same peice
of information. For example, a key's location log file contains
InfoPresent/InfoMissing for each UUID, and it only looks at the vector
clocks for the UUID that is being changed, and not other UUIDs.
Although exactly where the dividing line is can be hard to determine.
Consider metadata logs, where a field "tag" can have multiple values set
at different times. Should it advance forward past the last tag?
Probably. What about when a different field is set, should it look at
the clocks of other fields? Perhaps not, but currently it does, and
this does not seems like it will cause any problems.
Another one I'm not entirely sure about is the export log, which is
keyed by (fromuuid, touuid). So if multiple repos are exporting to the
same remote, different vector clocks can be used for that remote.
It looks like that's probably ok, because it does not try to determine
what order things occurred when there was an export conflict.
Sponsored-by: Jochen Bartl on Patreon
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.
Sponsored-by: Jake Vosloo on Patreon
When two files have the same content, and a required content expression
matches one but not the other, dropping the latter file will fail as it
would also remove the content of the required file.
This will slow down drop (w/o --auto), dropunused, mirror, and move, by one
keys db lookup per file. But I did include an optimisation to avoid a
double db lookup in the drop --auto / sync --content case. I suspect that
dropunused could also use PreferredContentChecked True, but haven't
entirely thought it through and it's rarely used with enough files for the
optimisation to matter.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
