plan for these

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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 8"""
+ date="2021-05-21T17:05:48Z"
+ content="""
+I think Ilya is on the right track with recording the last treeish scanned
+for keys and diffing to the current treeish. This seems worth implementing.
+
+So, plan:
+
+* When dropping a file, after checking that it's not preferred content,
+  or when needed for <https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/option_to___96__drop_path__96___to_not_drop___34__all_copies__34__/>
+* When the stat of the index differs from the last recorded stat
+* Generate a tree from the index with `git write-tree`, and when it
+  differs from the last recorded such tree
+* `git diff-index --cached` with the last recorded tree, parse and cat
+  the links, and update the keys database associated files with the keys
+  it found. Note that it can also remove associated files when files get
+  deleted, which is currently not done.
+* Then, look up in the keys database the associated files of the key, and
+  also check if the preferred content matches any of those other files.
+  So in the example above, it won't drop `archive/bar` because `foo` is
+  still preferred content.
+
+This would not notice if a file was moved or deleted but that was not
+staged in the index yet. I think that's ok -- If the file is moved and not
+staged yet, it's not been added to git, so it's acceptable for git-annex to
+not try to keep content around for it (git-annex unused would not either
+in similar situations). If the file is deleted, git-annex might not drop
+the content yet because it's still present in the index, but the same
+happens if you delete a file and then `git annex drop .`, because it skips
+over the deleted file whether or not it's staged in the index.
+
+It seems sufficient to only do this when dropping a file, not in other
+commands. That means the associated files database remains incomplete
+for other commands, not including recent changes to locked files.
+Since this is only a problem for dropping, and the associated files
+database is not needed for locked files generally, that seems ok, although
+it would certianly be a nice simplification if the database was always
+kept up-to-date. Since the update could be a pretty expensive operation,
+probably best to keep it for the drops that really need it.
+
+Note that the `git write-tree` would mean that using git-annex could
+create these tree objects, which never end up getting used. gc would
+eventually delete them, but there might be a situation where doing this
+a lot bloats the repo.
+"""]]

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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 4"""
+ date="2021-05-21T17:29:09Z"
+ content="""
+I have a plan over in [[bugs/indeterminite_preferred_content_state_for_duplicated_file]]
+and will be working on it over there.
+
+Linked worktrees seems out of scope for this though.
+"""]]