From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:09:03 +0000 (-0400) Subject: blog for the day X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/10.20250416-2+rpi1~1^2~4586 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e70feb7484293e91df37cc0a28cf187b9f943f7d;p=git-annex.git blog for the day --- diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_227__bigfixing_all_day_today.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_227__bigfixing_all_day_today.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..74e9fd82f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_227__bigfixing_all_day_today.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The [[xmpp screencast|videos/git-annex_assistant_remote_sharing]] +is at long last done! + +---- + +Fixed a bug that could cause the assistant to unstage files +from git sometimes. This happened because of a bad optimisation; adding a +file when it's already present and unchanged was optimised to do nothing. +But if the file had just been removed, and was put back, this resulted +in the removal being staged, and the add not being staged. Ugly bug, +although the assistant's daily sanity check automatically restaged the +files. + +Underlying that bug was a more important problem: git-annex does not always +update working tree files atomically. So a crash at just the wrong instant +could cause a file to be deleted from the working tree. I fixed that too; +all changes to files in the working tree should now be staged in a temp +file, which is renamed into place atomically. + +Also made a bunch of improvements to the dashboard's transfer display, and +to the handling of the underlying transfer queue.