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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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In order to remove some hackishness in `git annex sync --content`, I
finally fixed a bad design decision I made back at the very beginning
(before I really knew haskell) when I built the command seek code, which
had led to a kind of inversion of control. This took most of a night, but
it made a lot of code in git-annex clearer, and it makes the command
seeking code much more flexible in what it can do. Some of the oldest, and
worst code in git-annex was removed in the process.
Also, I've been reworking the numcopies configuration, to allow for a
[[todo/preferred_content_numcopies_check]]. That will let the assistant,
as well as `git annex sync --content` proactively make copies when
needed in order to satisfy numcopies.
As part of this, `git config annex.numcopies` is deprecated, and there's a
new `git annex numcopies N` command that sets the numcopies value that will
be used by any clone of a repository.
I got the preferred content checking of numcopies working too. However,
I am unsure if checking for per-file .gitattributes annex.numcopies
settings will make preferred content expressions be, so I have left
that out for now.
Today's work was sponsored by Josh Taylor.