git-annex/doc/devblog/day_97__exciting_telehash_possiblities.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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If you've been keeping an eye on the [[design/roadmap]], you'll have seen that
[[design/assistant/xmpp_security]] keeps being pushed back. This was because
it's a hard and annoying problem requiring custom crypto and with an
ugly key validation problem built into it too. I've now removed it from the
roadmap entirely, replacing it with a [[design/assistant/telehash]] design.
I'm excited by the possibilities of using telehash with git-annex. It seems
it would be quite easy to make it significantly more peer-to-peer and
flexible. The only issue is that telehash is still under heavy
development and the C implementation is not even usable yet..
(I'll probably end up writing Haskell bindings to that.)
So I've pushed it down the roadmap to at least March.
Spent the rest of the day making some minor improvements to external special
remote protocol and doing some other minor bug fixes and backlog catch up.
My backlog has exploded to nearly 50 messages remaining.
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Today's work was sponsored by Chad Horohoe.