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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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Started by tracking down a strange bug that was apparently
ubuntu-specific and caused git-annex branch changes to get committed to
master. Root cause turned out to failing to recover from an
exception. I'm kicking myself about that, because I remember looking at the
code where the bug was at least twice before and thinking "hmm, should add
exception handling here? nah..". Exceptions are horrible.
Made a release with a fix for that and a few minor other accumulated
changes since last Friday's release. The pain point of this release is to
fix building without the webapp (so it will propigate to Debian testing,
etc). This release does not include the direct mode guard, so I'll have a
few weeks until the next release to get that tested.
Fixed the test suite in `directguard`. This branch is now nearly ready to
merge to master, but one command that is badly needed in guarded direct
mode is "git status". So I am planning to rename "git annex status" to
"git annex info", and make "git annex status" display something similar
to "git status".
Also took half an hour and added optional [[EKG]] support to git-annex.
This is a Haskell library that can add a terrific monitoring console web
UI to any program in 2 lines of code. Here we can see the git-annex
webapp using resources at startup, followed in a few seconds by the
assistant's startup scan of the repository.
[[!img ekg/ekg.png]]
BTW, Kevin tells me that the machine used to build git-annex for OSX is
going to be upgraded to 10.9 soon. So, hopefully I'll be making autobuilds
of that. I may have to stop the 10.8.2 autobuilds though.
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