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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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On one of my ssh remotes I had to install git-annex using cabal. No system-wide installation possible. Hence `git-annex` and `git-annex-shell` are not in the default `$PATH` but in `$HOME/.cabal/bin`.
Right now the command run by git-annex when ssh'ing to a remote is hardcoded to "`git-annex-shell`", which doesn't work for me. It would be nice to be able to change this per remote, for example with an option named `annex.<remote>.annex-shell-command`. Changing "`git-annex-shell`" in `Remote/Helper/Ssh.hs` to "`~/.cabal/bin/git-annex-shell`" worked for me, but it's obviously very ugly :)
Could you do that please? I'll try to hack it myself and send you a patch in the next few days, but I'm pretty new to Haskell so it may take me a while... Thanks!
> [[closing|done]], see comments --[[Joey]]