git-annex/doc/bugs/Assistant_dropping_from_backup_repo.mdwn
Joey Hess e213ef310f git-annex (5.20140717) unstable; urgency=high
* Fix minor FD leak in journal code. Closes: #754608
  * direct: Fix handling of case where a work tree subdirectory cannot
    be written to due to permissions.
  * migrate: Avoid re-checksumming when migrating from hashE to hash backend.
  * uninit: Avoid failing final removal in some direct mode repositories
    due to file modes.
  * S3: Deal with AWS ACL configurations that do not allow creating or
    checking the location of a bucket, but only reading and writing content to
    it.
  * resolvemerge: New plumbing command that runs the automatic merge conflict
    resolver.
  * Deal with change in git 2.0 that made indirect mode merge conflict
    resolution leave behind old files.
  * sync: Fix git sync with local git remotes even when they don't have an
    annex.uuid set. (The assistant already did so.)
  * Set gcrypt-publish-participants when setting up a gcrypt repository,
    to avoid unncessary passphrase prompts.
    This is a security/usability tradeoff. To avoid exposing the gpg key
    ids who can decrypt the repository, users can unset
    gcrypt-publish-participants.
  * Install nautilus hooks even when ~/.local/share/nautilus/ does not yet
    exist, since it is not automatically created for Gnome 3 users.
  * Windows: Move .vbs files out of git\bin, to avoid that being in the
    PATH, which caused some weird breakage. (Thanks, divB)
  * Windows: Fix locking issue that prevented the webapp starting
    (since 5.20140707).

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Setup:
* fresh install of Debian Wheezy with git-annex 4.20130227 pulled in from unstable
Steps:
* clone existing repository and activate assistant
* Have USB drive, U, with repository group `backup` and preferred content string `standard`
Expected:
* Assistant never ever tries to drop anything from U
Actual:
* Assistant immediately tries to drop files from U; fortunately I didn't have the USB drive plugged in
* Changing the preferred content string of U to `present or include=*` stops the dropping, but this was never required before
Additional information:
* The files that the Assistant started trying to drop were, I believe, the first (alphabetically) files in my repository to contain non-ascii characters in their file names (some French accented letters)
Thanks.
> The non-ascii characters are the giveaway: For 1 version, git-annex used
> a regex library that failed to ever match non-ascii characters. So it
> thought backup repos, which match "*" with a regex, wanted no such files.
> This is [[fixed|done]]. --[[Joey]]