git-annex/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_304__dropunused_safety.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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The big news: Important behavior change in `git annex dropunused`. Now it
checks, just like `git annex drop`, that it's not dropping the last copy of
the file. So to lose data, you have to use `--force`. This continues the
recent theme of making git-annex hold on more tenaciously to old data, and
AFAIK it was the last place data could be removed without `--force`.
Also a nice little fix to `git annex unused` so it doesn't identify
temporary files as unused if they're being used to download a file.
Fixing it was easy thanks to all the transfer logs and locking
infrastucture built for the assistant.
Fixed a bug in the assistant where even though syncing to a network
remote was disabled, it would still sync with it every hour, or whenever
a network connection was detected.
Working on some direct mode scalability problems when thousands of the
identical files are added. Fixing this may involvie replacing the current
simple map files with something more scalable like a sqllite database.
While tracking that down, I also found a bug with adding a ton of files
in indirect mode, that could make the assistant stall.
Turned out to be a laziness problem. (Worst kind of Haskell bug.) Fixed.
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Today's sponsor is my sister, Anna Hess, who incidentially just put
the manuscript of her latest ebook in the family's annex prior to its
publication on Amazon this weekend.