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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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Pushed out a minor release of git-annex today, mostly to fix build problems
on Debian. No strong reason to upgrade to it otherwise.
Continued where I left off with the Git.Destroyer. Fixed quite a lot of
edge cases where git repair failed due to things like a corrupted .git/HEAD
file (this makes git think it's not in a git repository), corrupt
git objects that have an unknown object type and so crash git hard, and
an interesting failure mode where git fsck wants to allocate 116 GB of
memory due to a corrupted object size header. Reported that last to the git
list, as well as working around it.
At the end of the day, I ran a test creating 10000 corrupt git
repositories, and **all** of them were recovered! Any improvements will
probably involve finding new ways to corrupt git repositories that my code
can't think of. ;)