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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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Added `git-annex-shell notifychanges` command, which uses inotify (etc)
to detect when git refs have changed, and informs the caller about the
changes. This was relatively easy to write; I reused the existing inotify
code, and factored out code for simple line-based protocols from the
external special remote protocol. Also implemented the git-remote-daemon
protocol. 200 lines of code total.
Meanwhile, Johan Kiviniemi improved the dbus notifications, making them
work on Ubuntu and adding icons. Awesome!
There's going to be some fun to get git-annex-shell upgraded so that the
assistant can use this new notify feaure. While I have not started working
on the assistant side of this, you can get a jump by installing today's
upcoming release of git-annex. I had to push this out early because there
was a bug that prevented the webapp from running on non-gnome systems. Since
all changes in this release only affected Linux, today's release will be a
Linux-only release.