In particular, the mergedrefs file was written with CR added to each line,
but read without CRLF handling. This resulted in each update of the file
adding CR to each line in it, growing the number of lines, while also
preventing the optimisation from working, so it remerged unncessarily.
writeFile and readFile do NewlineMode translation on Windows. But the
ByteString conversion prevented that from happening any longer.
I've audited for other cases of this, and found three more
(.git/annex/index.lck, .git/annex/ignoredrefs, and .git/annex/import/). All
of those also only prevent optimisations from working. Some other files are
currently both read and written with ByteString, but old git-annex may have
written them with NewlineMode translation. Other files are at risk for
breakage later if the reader gets converted to ByteString.
This is a minimal fix, but should be enough, as long as I remember to use
fileLines when splitting a ByteString into lines. This leaves files written
using ByteString without CR added, but that's ok because old git-annex has
no difficulty reading such files.
When the mergedrefs file has gotten lines that end with "\r\r\r\n", this
will eventually clean it up. Each update will remove a single trailing CR.
Note that S8.lines is still used in eg Command.Unused, where it is parsing
git show-ref, and similar in Git/*. git commands don't include CR in their
output so that's ok.
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