This is a result of an audit of every use of getInodeCaches,
to find places that misbehave when the annex object is not in the inode
cache, despite pointer files for the same key being in the inode cache.
Unfortunately, that is the case for objects that were in v7 repos that
upgraded to v8. Added a note about this gotcha to getInodeCaches.
Database.Keys.reconcileStaged, then annex.thin is set, would fail to
populate pointer files in this situation. Changed it to check if the
annex object is unmodified the same way inAnnex does, falling back to a
checksum if the inode cache is not recorded.
Some uses of linkFromAnnex are inside replaceWorkTreeFile, which was
already safe, but others use it directly on the work tree file, which
was race-prone. Eg, if the work tree file was first removed, then
linkFromAnnex called to populate it, the user could have re-written it in
the interim.
This came to light during an audit of all calls of addInodeCaches,
looking for such races. All the other uses of it seem ok.
In Annex.Content, the object file was statted after pointer files were
populated. But if annex.thin is set, once the pointer files are
populated, the object file can potentially be modified via the hard
link. So, it was possible, though seemingly very unlikely, for the inode
of the modified object file to be cached.
Command.Fix and Command.Fsck had similar problems, statting the work
tree files after they were in place. Changed them to stat the temp file
that gets moved into place. This does rely on .git/annex being on the
same filesystem. If it's not, the cached inode will not be the same as
the one that the temp file gets moved to. Result will be that git-annex
will later need to do an expensive verification of the content of the
worktree files. Note that the cross-filesystem move of the temp file
already is a larger amount of extra work, so this seems acceptable.
check if object is modified before starting to send it
Fix bug that caused some transfers to incorrectly fail with "content
changed while it was being sent", when the content was not changed.
While I don't know how to reproduce the problem that several people
reported, it is presumably due to the inode cache somehow being stale.
So check isUnmodified', and if it's not modified, include the file's
current inode cache in the set to accept, when checking for modification
after the transfer.
That seems like the right thing to do for another reason: The failure
says the file changed while it was being sent, but if the object file was
changed before the transfer started, that's wrong. So it needs to check
before allowing the transfer at all if the file is modified.
(Other calls to sameInodeCache or elemInodeCaches, when operating on inode
caches from the database, could also be problimatic if the inode cache is
somehow getting stale. This does not address such problems.)
fix a place where the inode cache could potentially have gotten stale
When git-annex lock repopulates the object file by copying an associated
file that still has its content, it negected to update the inode cache.
I was not able to actually get this code to successfully repopulate the
object file; the associated file gets replaced with a dangling pointer
before unlock is able to do that. (By what I'm not sure..
reconcileStaged?) Which might be itself a bug, but
anyway this makes me doubtful that this was really leading to a stale
inode cache. Still, in case there is some situation in which it does
work, fixed it to update the inode cache.
remove direct mode remnant of merging unrelated histories
sync, merge, post-receive: Avoid merging unrelated histories, which used to
be allowed only to support direct mode repositories.
(However, sync does still merge unrelated histories when importing trees
from special remotes, and the assistant still merges unrelated histories
always.)
This is a behavior change, which might break something that was relying
on sync merging unrelated histories, but git had a good reason to
prevent it, since it's easy to foot shoot with it, and git-annex should
follow suit.
* sync: When --quiet is used, run git commit, push, and pull without
their ususual output.
* merge: When --quiet is used, run git merge without its usual output.
This might also make --quiet work better for some other commands
that make commits, like git-annex adjust.
fall back to checking lower case hash directories in normal repo
Fix a bug that prevented getting content from a repository that started out
as a bare repository, or had annex.crippledfilesystem set, and was
converted to a non-bare repository.
This unfortunately means that inAnnex check gets slowed down by a stat call
in normal repos when the content is not present. Oh well, such is the cost
of backwards compatability with old mistakes.
Handles keys that are substrings of other keys, as well as pointer files
that contain a newline after the key.
Note that -S does not match regexp, while -G does by default. Docs are
not clear, determined experimentally. The only other difference in
changing to -G is that if a file used to contain the key and changed
in some way, while still containing the key, -G will match and -S would
not. So eg, annex links that git annex fix rewrites will match, and
files that change lock status will match. Which is an improvement anyway.
It's possible for it to display something that is not an annexed file,
if a non-annexed file somehow ends up containing something that looks
like the key's name. This seems very unlikely to happen, and it would
add a lot of complexity to detect it and somehow skip over that file,
since the git log would need to either be run again, or not limited to 1
result and canceled once enough results have been read.
Also, it kind of seems ok, if a file refers to a key, to consider that
as a place the key was used, for some definition of used. So, I punted
on dealing with that. May revisit later.
addistant: honor annex.delayadd for non-large files
assistant: When adding non-large files to git, honor annex.delayadd
configuration.
Also, don't add non-large files to git when they are still
being written to. This came for free, since the changes to non-large
files get queued up with the ones to large files, and run through the lsof
check.
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