Joey Hess [Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:29:34 +0000 (13:29 -0400)]
support annex.shared-sop-command for encryption=shared
This works well, and it interoperates with gpg in my testing (although some
SOP commands might choose to use a profile that does not so caveat emptor).
Note that for creating the Cipher, gpg --gen-random is still used. SOP
does not have an eqivilant, and as long as the user has gpg around,
which seems likely, it doesn't matter that it uses gpg here, it's not being
used for encryption. That seemed better than implementing a second way
to get high quality entropy, at least for now.
The need for the sop command to run in an empty directory has each call
to encrypt and decrypt creating a new temporary directory. That is some
unncessary overhead, though probably swamped by the overhead of running
the sop command. This could be improved in the future by passing an
already empty directory to them, or a sufficiently empty directory
(.git/annex/tmp would probably suffice).
Joey Hess [Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:31:58 +0000 (17:31 -0400)]
close send side of password pipe on exec
This avoids a hang approximately 1% of the time when running the test
suite on StatelessOpenPGP.
Since I've not seen git-annex hang when running git like that, I guess
git probably does something that avoids hanging similarly. Still, fixed
the same problem in Utility.Gpg too.
Joey Hess [Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:30:38 +0000 (16:30 -0400)]
test annex.shared-sop-command
Test a specified Stateless OpenPGP command with eg:
git-annex test --test-git-config annex.shared-sop-command=sqop
Also documented that config and another one, but so far only the test suite
uses the configs, have not yet implemented using it for actual symmetric
encryption.
Joey Hess [Tue, 9 Jan 2024 19:31:53 +0000 (15:31 -0400)]
assistant: When generating a gpg secret key, avoid hardcoding the key algorithm and size
This aims to future-proof gpg key generation. OpenPGP is in flux with a
conflict over standards ongoing. It seems not unlikely that different
systems will have different gpg commands that support different algorithms.
This also simplifies the code by using the --quick-gen-key interface rather
than the experimental batch interface. It seems less likely that
--quick-gen-key will break than an experimental interface (whose
documentation I can no longer find).
--quick-gen-key is supported since gpg 2.1.0 (2014).
Joey Hess [Wed, 3 Jan 2024 19:07:49 +0000 (15:07 -0400)]
optimise adjustTree when adding many TreeItems
The old code traversed the list of addtreeitems once per subdirectory in
the tree, so could get quite slow. Converting to Map lookups sped it up
significantly.
In my test case, git-annex import used to take about 2 minutes, when
calling adjustTree to add back excluded files to the imported tree. This
dropped it down to 6 seconds. Of which 4 seconds are the actual
enumeration of the contents of the remote, so really only 2 seconds for
this.
The path prefix map is a bit suboptimal memory-wise, since items get
stored in the map once per subdirectory on the path to the item. It
would perhaps be better to use a tree data structure.
Also it's suboptimal memory-wise that it builds two maps, as well
as retaining a reference to addtreeitems. I could not see a way around
that though.
Joey Hess [Tue, 2 Jan 2024 17:56:50 +0000 (13:56 -0400)]
import: Sped up import from special remote when the imported tree is unchanged
I saw a nearly 2 minute speed up from this, in a repo with 56000 files some
of which are preferred content of the special remote and others not. In
such a case, addBackExportExcluded has to do a lot of work, which is
unncessary when the tree is unchanged.
When using sync --content, preferred content checking of that many files
takes about 1 minute. So this speeds up sync --content by 3x.
When using git-annex import, the speed up is much larger.
Joey Hess [Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:31:52 +0000 (18:31 -0400)]
use RawFilePath for opening sqlite databases
Fix a crash opening sqlite databases when run in a non-unicode locale,
with a remote that uses a non-unicode filepath. In that situation
converting to Text fails.
The fix needs git-annex to be built with persistent-sqlite 2.13.3.
Building against older versions still works, but that version is used when
building with stack.
Database.RawFilePath is a lot of code copied from persistent-sqlite and
lightly modified, since only 1 function in persistent-sqlite was made to
support RawFilePath. This is a bit of a pain, and I hope that
persistent-sqlite will eventually switch to using OsPath, allowing this
module to be removed from git-annex.
Joey Hess [Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:27:26 +0000 (16:27 -0400)]
importtree: support preferred content expressions needing keys
When importing from a special remote, support preferred content expressions
that use terms that match on keys (eg "present", "copies=1"). Such terms
are ignored when importing, since the key is not known yet.
When "standard" or "groupwanted" is used, the terms in those
expressions also get pruned accordingly.
This does allow setting preferred content to "not (copies=1)" to make a
special remote into a "source" type of repository. Importing from it will
import all files. Then exporting to it will drop all files from it.
In the case of setting preferred content to "present", it's pruned on
import, so everything gets imported from it. Then on export, it's applied,
and everything in it is left on it, and no new content is exported to it.
Since the old behavior on these preferred content expressions was for
importtree to error out, there's no backwards compatability to worry about.
Except that sync/pull/etc will now import where before it errored out.
Joey Hess [Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:04:06 +0000 (15:04 -0400)]
Lower precision of timestamps in git-annex branch
This can reduce the size of the branch by up to 8%. My test was
running git-annex add 1000 times on one file each.
Lots of different high-resolution timestamps were recorded before
and eliminating those, after packing, the git repo was 8% smaller.
Due to the use of vector clocks, high resolution timestamps are
not necessary to make clear which information is most recent when
eg, a value is changed repeatedly in the same second. In such a
case, the vector clock will be advanced to the next second after
the last modification. For example, running
git-annex numcopies 1; git-annex numcopies 2
The first will record the current second, while the next records
the second after that even if it runs in the same second.
As for conflicting information written to two different clones of the
repository, this will make git-annex sometimes pick information that
was written earlier in a second over information written later in the
same second. Usually git-annex does not write conflicting information,
but there are some cases where it could. Eg, storing an object on a remote
can update the remote state log with some state. If two repos both store the
same object, and end up storing different remote state for some reason,
this can result in one that ran a tiny bit later winning. Such a situation
seems unlikely to be user visible. And a small amount of clock skew could
already result in such things.
The only case I can think of where this might be a user visible change
is if a configuration command like git-annex numcopies is being run
in 2 clones of a repository on the same machine at very
close to the same time. Then the user will know which they ran last,
and git-annex won't.
If that did become a problem, this could be dialed back to eg log
milliseconds with still some space saving.