git-annex/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_210__spring.mdwn
Joey Hess b6d46c212e git-annex (5.20140402) unstable; urgency=medium
* unannex, uninit: Avoid committing after every file is unannexed,
    for massive speedup.
  * --notify-finish switch will cause desktop notifications after each
    file upload/download/drop completes
    (using the dbus Desktop Notifications Specification)
  * --notify-start switch will show desktop notifications when each
    file upload/download starts.
  * webapp: Automatically install Nautilus integration scripts
    to get and drop files.
  * tahoe: Pass -d parameter before subcommand; putting it after
    the subcommand no longer works with tahoe-lafs version 1.10.
    (Thanks, Alberto Berti)
  * forget --drop-dead: Avoid removing the dead remote from the trust.log,
    so that if git remotes for it still exist anywhere, git annex info
    will still know it's dead and not show it.
  * git-annex-shell: Make configlist automatically initialize
    a remote git repository, as long as a git-annex branch has
    been pushed to it, to simplify setup of remote git repositories,
    including via gitolite.
  * add --include-dotfiles: New option, perhaps useful for backups.
  * Version 5.20140227 broke creation of glacier repositories,
    not including the datacenter and vault in their configuration.
    This bug is fixed, but glacier repositories set up with the broken
    version of git-annex need to have the datacenter and vault set
    in order to be usable. This can be done using git annex enableremote
    to add the missing settings. For details, see
    http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/problems_with_glacier/
  * Added required content configuration.
  * assistant: Improve ssh authorized keys line generated in local pairing
    or for a remote ssh server to set environment variables in an
    alternative way that works with the non-POSIX fish shell, as well
    as POSIX shells.

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Trying to record screencasts demoing the assistant is really helping me
see things that need to be fixed.
Got the version of the haskell TLS library in Debian fixed, backporting
some changes to fix a botched security fix that made it reject all
certificates. So WebDAV special remotes will work again on the next release.
Fixed some more problems around content being dropped when files are
moved to archive directories, and gotten again when files are
moved out.
Fixed some problems around USB drives. One was a real jaw-dropping
bug: "git annex drop --from usbdrive" when the drive was not
connected still updated the location log to indicate it did not have
the file anymore! (Thank goodness for fsck..)
I've noticed that moving around files in direct mode repos is inneficient,
because the assistant re-checksums the "new" file. One way to avoid
that would be to have a lookup table from (inode, size, mtime) to
key, but I don't have one, and would like to avoid adding one.
Instead, I have a cunning plan to deal with this heuristically. If the
assistant can notice a file was removed and another file added at the same
time, it can compare the (inode, size, mtime) to see if it's a rename, and
avoid the checksum overhead.
The first step to getting there was to make the assistant better at
batching together delete+add events into a single rename commit. I'm happy
to say I've accomplished that, with no perceptable delay to commits.