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After the big security fix push, I've had a bit of a vacation. Several new
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features have also landed in git-annex though.
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git-worktree support is a feature I'm fairly excited by.
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It turned out to be possible to make git-annex just work in working trees
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set up by `git worktree`, and they share the same object files. So,
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if you need several checkouts of a repository for whatever reason,
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this makes it really efficient to do. It's much better than the old
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method of using `git clone --shared`.
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A new `--accessedwithin` option matches files whose content was accessed
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within a given amount of time. (Using the atime.) Of course it can
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be combined with other options, for example
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`git annex move --to archive --not --accessedwithin=30d`
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There are a few open requests for other new file matching options that I
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hope to get to soon.
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A small configuration addition of remote.name.annex-speculate-present
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to make git-annex try to get content from a remote even if its records
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don't indicate the remote contains the content allows setting up an interesting
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kind of [local cache of annexed files](https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/local_caching_of_annexed_files/)
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which can even be shared between unrelated git-annex repositories, with
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inter-repository deduplication.
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I suspect that remote.name.annex-speculate-present may also have other
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uses. It warps git-annex's behavior in a small but fundamental way which
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could let it fit into new places. Will be interesting to see.
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There's also a annex.commitmessage config, which I am much less excited by,
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but enough people have asked for it over the years.
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Also fixed a howler of a bug today: In -J mode, remotes were sorted not
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by cost, but by UUID! How did that not get noticed for 2 years?
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Much of this work was sponsored by NSF-funded DataLad project at Dartmouth
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Colledge, as has been the case for the past 4 years. All told they've
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funded over 1000 hours of work on git-annex. This is the last month of that
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funding.
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