That's too much quoting, the user expects the filename to be copy and
pasteable. It would be ok to slash-escape space ('\ ')
which is what gnu find does, but it doesn't seem necessary either.
${escaped_file} has always quoted spaces though, so keep on doing it
there.
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This reverts commit a325524454.
Turns out this was predicated on an incorrect belief that json output
didn't already sometimes lack the "key" field. Since json output already
can when `giveup` was used, it seems unncessary to add a whole new
option for this.
Added a --json-exceptions option, which makes some exceptions be output in json.
The distinction is that --json-error-messages is for messages relating
to a particular ActionItem, while --json-exceptions is for messages that
are not, eg ones for a file that does not exist.
It's unfortunate that we need two switches with such a fine distinction
between them, but I'm worried about maintaining backwards compatability
in the json output, to avoid breaking anything that parses it, and this was
the way to make sure I didn't.
toplevelWarning is generally used for the latter kind of message. And
the other calls to toplevelWarning could be converted to showException. The
only possible gotcha is that if toplevelWarning is ever called after
starting acting on a file, it will add to the --json-error-messages of the
json displayed for that file and converting to showException would be a
behavior change. That seems unlikely, but I didn't convery everything to
avoid needing to satisfy myself it was not a concern.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
Sometimes users would get confused because an option they were looking
for was not mentioned on a subcommand's man page, and they had not
noticed that the main git-annex man page had a list of common options.
This change lets each subcommand mention the common options, similarly
to how the matching options are handled.
This commit was sponsored by Svenne Krap on Patreon.
Note that, the way the SeekInput parser is written to support batch mode,
it's actually possible to do git-annex examinekey
"SHA1--foo foo.tar.gz" --migrate-to-backend=SHA1E
While that might be kind of useful to support multiple migrations not using
batch mode, I have not documented it. It would be better to take pairs of
key and file in that case.
* Automatically convert direct mode repositories to v7 with adjusted
unlocked branches and set annex.thin.
* init: When run on a crippled filesystem with --version=5,
will error out, since version 7 is needed for adjusted unlocked branch.
* direct: This command always errors out as direct mode is no longer
supported.
* indirect: This command has become a deprecated noop.
* proxy: This command is deprecated because it was only needed in direct
mode. (But it continues to work.)
Also removed mentions of direct mode throughough the documentation.
I have not removed all the direct mode code yet.
I understand and sympathize with why this was added here, but the fact
is that this kind of warning is clutter that is going to make it harder
to understand this man page overall; this is not the place to document
internal implementation details of the format of URL keys and more than
it would be the place to document how WORM keys mangle and truncate
filenames, or how the extension of a SHAnE key is chosen. I see that
it did get documented better in backends.mdwn, which is a good place
to document it.
The chance that someone is going to have the same misunderstanding and
happen to see this warning does not justify confusing everyone else
with a warning that is really out of place in this documentation.
Added --json-error-messages option, which includes error messages in the
json output, rather than outputting them to stderr.
The actual rediretion of errors is not implemented yet, this is only
the docs and option plumbing.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.