This adds a separate journal, which does not currently get committed to
an index, but is planned to be committed to .git/annex/index-private.
Changes that are regarding a UUID that is private will get written to
this journal, and so will not be published into the git-annex branch.
All log writing should have been made to indicate the UUID it's
regarding, though I've not verified this yet.
Currently, no UUIDs are treated as private yet, a way to configure that
is needed.
The implementation is careful to not add any additional IO work when
privateUUIDsKnown is False. It will skip looking at the private journal
at all. So this should be free, or nearly so, unless the feature is
used. When it is used, all branch reads will be about twice as expensive.
It is very lucky -- or very prudent design -- that Annex.Branch.change
and maybeChange are the only ways to change a file on the branch,
and Annex.Branch.set is only internal use. That let Annex.Branch.get
always yield any private information that has been recorded, without
the risk that Annex.Branch.set might be called, with a non-private UUID,
and end up leaking the private information into the git-annex branch.
And, this relies on the way git-annex union merges the git-annex branch.
When reading a file, there can be a public and a private version, and
they are just concacenated together. That will be handled the same as if
there were two diverged git-annex branches that got union merged.
Especially from borg, where the content identifier logs
all end up being the same identical file!
But also, for other imports, the location tracking logs can,
in some cases, be identical files.
Bonus optimisation: Avoid looking up (and parsing when set)
GIT_ANNEX_VECTOR_CLOCK env var every time a log is written to.
Although the lookup does happen at startup even when no
log will be written now.
This does not change the overall license of the git-annex program, which
was already AGPL due to a number of sources files being AGPL already.
Legally speaking, I'm adding a new license under which these files are
now available; I already released their current contents under the GPL
license. Now they're dual licensed GPL and AGPL. However, I intend
for all my future changes to these files to only be released under the
AGPL license, and I won't be tracking the dual licensing status, so I'm
simply changing the license statement to say it's AGPL.
(In some cases, others wrote parts of the code of a file and released it
under the GPL; but in all cases I have contributed a significant portion
of the code in each file and it's that code that is getting the AGPL
license; the GPL license of other contributors allows combining with
AGPL code.)
This preserves the workaround for the old bug that caused NoUUID items
to be stored in the log, prefixing log lines with " ". It's now handled
implicitly, by using takeWhile1 (/= ' ') to get the uuid.
There is a behavior change from the old parser, which split the value
into words and then recombined it. That meant that "foo bar" and "foo\tbar"
came out as "foo bar". That behavior was not documented, and seems
surprising; it meant that after a git-annex describe here "foo bar",
you wouldn't get that same string back out when git-annex displayed repo
descriptions.
Otoh, some other parsers relied on the old behavior, and the attoparsec
rewrites had to deal with the issue themselves...
For group.log, there are some edge cases around the user providing a
group name with a leading or trailing space. The old parser would ignore
such excess whitespace. The new parser does too, because the alternative
is to refuse to parse something like " group1 group2 " due to excess
whitespace, which would be even more confusing behavior.
The only git-annex branch log file that is not converted to attoparsec
and bytestring-builder now is transitions.log.
There should be some speed gains here, especially for chunk and remote
state logs, which are queried once per key.
Now only old-format uuid-based logs still need to be converted to attoparsec.
Mostly didn't push the ByteStrings down very deep, but all of these log
files are not written to frequently at all, so slight remaining
innefficiency doesn't matter.
In Logs.UUID, removed the fixBadUUID code that cleaned up after a bug in
git-annex versions 3.20111105-3.20111110. In the unlikely event that a repo was
last touched by that ancient git-annex version, the descriptions of remotes
would appear missing when used with this version of git-annex. That is such minor
breakage, and so unlikely to still be a problem for any repos, that it was not
worth forward-porting that code to ByteString.
Most of the individual logs are not converted yet, only presense logs
have an efficient ByteString Builder implemented so far. The rest
convert to and from String.
git grep writeFile finds some more that might also be problems, but
for now I've concentrated on .git/annex/ log files. There are certianly
cases where writeFile is not a problem too.
This commit was sponsored by mo on Patreon.
Can be used to override the default timestamps used in log files in the
git-annex branch. This is a dangerous environment variable; use with
caution.
Note that this only affects writing to the logs on the git-annex branch.
It is not used for metadata in git commits (other env vars can be set for
that).
There are many other places where timestamps are still used, that don't
get committed to git, but do touch disk. Including regular timestamps
of files, and timestamps embedded in some files in .git/annex/, including
the last fsck timestamp and timestamps in transfer log files.
A good way to find such things in git-annex is to get for getPOSIXTime and
getCurrentTime, although some of the results are of course false positives
that never hit disk (unless git-annex gets swapped out..)
So this commit does NOT necessarily make git-annex comply with some HIPPA
privacy regulations; it's up to the user to determine if they can use it in
a way compliant with such regulations.
Benchmarking: It takes 0.00114 milliseconds to call getEnv
"GIT_ANNEX_VECTOR_CLOCK" when that env var is not set. So, 100 thousand log
files can be written with an added overhead of only 0.114 seconds. That
should be by far swamped by the actual overhead of writing the log files
and making the commit containing them.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
This fixes all instances of " \t" in the code base. Most common case
seems to be after a "where" line; probably vim copied the two space layout
of that line.
Done as a background task while listening to episode 2 of the Type Theory
podcast.
Once I built the basic widget, it turned out to be rather easy to replicate
it once per scheduled activity and wire it all up to a fully working UI.
This does abuse yesod's form handling a bit, but I think it's ok.
And it would be nice to have it all ajax-y, so that saving one modified
form won't lose any modifications to other forms. But for now, a nice
simple 115 line of code implementation is a win.
This late night hack session commit was sponsored by Andrea Rota.
