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[[!toc levels=3]]
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# Software upgrades
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Upgrading the code base of git-annex will be done differently depending on
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your [[install]] method. For most distribution-based packages, it is
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handled by the package management software.
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For the standalone distribution, the [[git-annex-webapp]](1) will ask the
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user for confirmation when it detects a new version. Once that is
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confirmed, or if `annex.autoupgrade` is enabled (see the [[git-annex]](1)
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manpage) the assistant will start the upgrade. The upgrade process is
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fairly simple: the assistant will move the `git-annex.linux` directory out
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of the way and replace it with the new version, then re-execute itself. It
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therefore needs write access to the parent directory of the
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`git-annex.linux` directory.
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Note that "upgrading" from a distribution-based package to the
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[[install/Linux_standalone/]] version may cause weird problems, as an
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unexpected version of git-annex (e.g. the old one from packages) may be
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ran.
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# Repository upgrades
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Occasionally improvements are made to how git-annex stores its data,
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that require an upgrade process to convert repositories made with an older
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version to be used by a newer version. It's annoying, it should happen
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rarely, but sometimes, it's worth it.
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There's a commitment that git-annex will always support upgrades from all
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past versions. After all, you may have offline drives from an earlier
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git-annex, and might want to use them with a newer git-annex.
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git-annex will notice if it is run in a repository that
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needs an upgrade, and either automatically upgrade it or
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refuse to do anything. To upgrade, use the "git annex upgrade" command.
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To prevent automatic upgrades in a repository, run:
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`git config annex.autoupgraderepository false`
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The upgrade process is guaranteed to be conflict-free. Unless you
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already have git conflicts in your repository or between repositories.
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Upgrading a repository with conflicts is not recommended; resolve the
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conflicts first before upgrading git-annex.
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The upgrade process needs to write to the repository. If the original
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repository cannot be written to (due to eg being on readonly media),
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the upgrade would need to be run in a copy of the repository.
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The upgrade events, so far:
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## v7 -> v8 (git-annex version 8.x)
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v7 repositories are automatically upgraded to v8.
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Some sqlite databases that git-annex uses were changed in v8 and have to be
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re-populated. As a consequence:
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* Any incremental fscks that were started in v7 won't resume where they left
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off in v8, but will instead begin again from the first file.
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* An interrupted export that was started in v7 won't resume where it left off
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after upgrade to v8; files will be re-uploaded to the export remote.
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* After the upgrade, git-annex will in some situations have to do extra
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work while it finishes populating the new databases. After this one-time
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speed cost, git-annex's speed will improve when using the new and improved
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databases.
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Also, there are some behavior changes around adding dotfiles. While before
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git-annex add skipped adding dotfiles when operating on whole directories,
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and added dotfiles that were explicitly listed to the annex, it now adds
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dotfiles to git by default, unless annex.dotfiles is set to true.
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## v6 -> v7 (git-annex version 7.x)
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v6 repositories are automatically upgraded to v7.
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The only difference between v6 and v7 is that some additional git hooks
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were added in v7. See below for details about what's new in v6/v7.
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## v5 -> v6 (git-annex version 6.x)
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v5 repositories are automatically upgraded to v6.
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A v6 git-annex repository can have some files locked while other files are
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unlocked, and all git and git-annex commands can be used on both locked and
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unlocked files. It's a good idea to make sure that all users of the
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repository have upgraded git-annex and upgraded their repositories
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to the new version before starting to use this feature, since old
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versions of git-annex will ignore the new unlocked files.
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Direct mode repositories are upgraded to instead use the new
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[[adjusted branches feature|git-annex-adjust]], which transparently unlocks
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all locked files in the local repository.
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The behavior of some commands changes in an upgraded repository:
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* When `annex.largefiles` is configured, git add` will add matching
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files to the annex, rather than adding them directly to the git
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repository.
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* `git annex unlock` and `git annex lock` change how the pointer to
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the annexed content is stored in git. If you commit the change,
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that will impact all clones of the repository. This means all clones of the
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repository will need to run at least v6 to correctly synchronise.
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There is also a new `annex.thin` setting, which makes unlocked files in v6
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repositories be hard linked to their content, instead of a copy. This saves
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disk space but means any modification of an unlocked file will lose the
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local (and possibly only) copy of the old version. This is automatically
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enabled when upgrading a direct mode repository, since direct mode made the
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same tradeoff.
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See [[tips/unlocked_files/]] for more details about locked files and thin
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mode.
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## v4 -> v5 (git-annex version 5.x)
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The upgrade from v4 to v5 is handled
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automatically, and only affects [[direct mode]] repositories.
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This upgrade involves changing direct mode repositories to operate with
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core.bare=true.
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## v3 -> v4 (git-annex version 4.x)
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v4 was only used for [[direct_mode]], to ensure that a version of git-annex
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that understands direct mode was used with a direct mode repository.
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## v2 -> v3 (git-annex version 3.x)
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Involved moving the .git-annex/ directory into a separate git-annex branch.
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After this upgrade, you should make sure you include the git-annex branch
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when git pushing and pulling.
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## v1 -> v2 (git-annex version 0.20110316)
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Involved adding hashing to .git/annex/ and changing the names of all keys.
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Symlinks changed.
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Also, hashing was added to location log files in .git-annex/.
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And .gitattributes needed to have another line added to it.
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Previously, files added to the SHA [[backends]] did not have their file
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size tracked, while files added to the WORM backend did. Files added to
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the SHA backends after the conversion will have their file size tracked,
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and that information will be used by git-annex for disk free space checking.
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To ensure that information is available for all your annexed files, see
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[[upgrades/SHA_size]].
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## v0 -> v1 (git-annex version 0.04)
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Involved a reorganisation of the layout of .git/annex/. Symlinks changed.
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Handled more or less transparently, although git-annex was just 2 weeks
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old at the time, and had few users other than Joey.
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