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Worked today on two action items from my last blog post:
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* on-disk transfers in progress information files (read/write/enumerate)
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* locking for the files, so redundant transfer races can be detected,
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and failed transfers noticed
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That's all done, and used by the `get`, `copy`, and `move` subcommands.
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Also, I made `git-annex status` use that information to display any
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file transfers that are currently in progress:
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joey@gnu:~/lib/sound/misc>git annex status
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[...]
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transfers in progress:
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downloading Vic-303.mp3 from leech
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(Webapp, here we come!)
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However... Files being sent or received by `git-annex-shell` don't yet
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have this transfer info recorded. The problem is that to do so,
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`git-annex-shell` will need to be run with a `--remote=` parameter. But
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old versions will of course fail when run with such an unknown parameter.
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This is a problem I last faced in December 2011 when adding the `--uuid=`
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parameter. That time I punted and required the remote `git-annex-shell` be
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updated to a new enough version to accept it. But as git-annex gets more widely
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used and packaged, that's becoming less an option. I need to find a real
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solution to this problem.
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