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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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Finally fixed the bug causing repeated checksumming when a direct mode file
contains duplicate files. I may need to add some cleaning of stale inode
caches eventually.
Meanwhile, Guilhem made `git annex initremote` use higher quality entropy,
with `--fast` getting back to the old behavior of urandom quality entropy.
The assistant doesn't use high quality entropy since I have no way to
prompt when the user would need to generate more. I did have a fun idea to
deal with this: Make a javascript game, that the user can play while
waiting, which would generate enropy nicely. Maybe one day.. ;)
Also made a small but significant change to [[archive directory handling|todo/assistant_smarter_archive_directory_handling]].
Now the assistant syncs files that are in `archive` directories like any
other file, until they reach an archive repository. Then they get dropped
from all the clients. This way, users who don't set up archive repositories
don't need to know about this special case, and users who do want to use
them can, with no extra configuration.
After recent changes, the preferred content expression for transfer
repositories is becoming a bit unweidly, at 212 characters. Probably
time to add support for macros..
`(not (inallgroup=client and copies=client:2) and (((exclude=*/archive/* and exclude=archive/*) or (not (copies=archive:1 or copies=smallarchive:1))) or (not copies=semitrusted+:1))) or (not copies=semitrusted+:1)`
Still, it's pretty great how much this little language lets me express, so
easily.