git-annex/doc/devblog/day_112__metadata_design.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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There's a new design document for letting git-annex store arbitrary
metadata. The really neat thing about this is the user can check out only
files matching the tags or values they care about, and get an automatically
structuted file tree layout that can be dynamically filtered. It's going to
be awesome! [[design/metadata]]
In the meantime, spent most of today working on Windows. Very good
progress, possibly motivated by wanting to get it over with so I can spend
some time this month on the above. ;)
* webapp can make box.com and S3 remotes. This just involved fixing a hack
where the webapp set environment variables to communicate creds to
initremote. Can't change environment on Windows (or I don't know how to).
* webapp can make repos on removable drives.
* `git annex assistant --stop` works, although this is not likely to really
be useful
* The source tree now has 0 `func = error "Windows TODO"` type stubbed out
functions to trip over.