Joey Hess [Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:00:36 +0000 (14:00 -0400)]
Avoid Git.Config.updateLocation adding "/.git" to the end of the repo
path to a bare repo when git config is not allowed to list the configs
due to the CVE-2022-24765 fix.
That resulted in a confusing error message, and prevented the nice
message that explains how to mark the repo as safe to use.
Made isBare a tristate so that the case where core.bare is not returned can
be handled.
The handling in updateLocation is to check if the directory
contains config and objects and if so assume it's bare.
Note that if that heuristic is somehow wrong, it would construct a repo
that thinks it's bare but is not. That could cause follow-on problems,
but since git-annex then checks checkRepoConfigInaccessible, and skips
using the repo anyway, a wrong guess should not be a problem.
Joey Hess [Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:30:54 +0000 (14:30 -0400)]
better handling of multiple repositories with the same name
Used to fail with a bad error message, indicating there was no
repository with the specified name, or something like that. Now, suggest
they use the uuid to disambiguate.
* info, enableremotemote, renameremote: Avoid a confusing message when more
than one repository matches the user provided name.
* info: Exit nonzero when the input is not supported.
Joey Hess [Mon, 13 Feb 2023 17:29:57 +0000 (13:29 -0400)]
Sped up view branch construction by 50%
A benchmark in my sound repository with `git-annex view feedtitle=*`
took 2:52 wall clock time before and 1:58 after. Though it still only used
130% of CPU.
This is the same kind of optimisation that is in seekFilteredKeys, though
that precaches location logs while this streams the metadata logs direct
to parsing them.
seekFilteredKeys contains more streaming, to find the annexed files, and
this could be further sped up with similar streaming.
Joey Hess [Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:17:13 +0000 (14:17 -0400)]
add warning about Go's past and future data collection
Based on https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409, the Go compiler
already defaults to using a google proxy server, which would allow
Google to collect information about what dependencies users are
installing. (Of course they claim they won't.) Two separate environment
settings are needed to turn that off, and users in that thread were
surprised to learn about one of them.
So this warning is already appropriate to some extent.
Also based on the minimisation of user concerns by the golang developers
on that issue and elsewhere, it seems best to assume that they are not
going to be dissuaded from increasing data collection efforts in the future,
even if the blowback prevents this particular attempt.
So this warning should not be removed unless the Go community somehow
extricates itself from Google's control. Or unless ipfs is rewritten in
another language.
Some distros do have ipfs. Unfortunately, Debian appears to be structurally
incapable of packaging it. (8 years and counting;
https://bugs.debian.org/779893). So lots of users will be stuck
installing it from source or having to trust its official binaries.
Joey Hess [Sat, 11 Feb 2023 19:08:31 +0000 (15:08 -0400)]
add a warning about homebrew's use of analytics by default
It apparently displays a notice on first use, but I was surprised to
learn about this behavior today, and I've used it. Displaying a notice
does not make violating users' privacy acceptable.
Joey Hess [Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:49:15 +0000 (15:49 -0400)]
fix buggy sync to exporttree remote when annex-tracking-branch is not checked out
sync: Fix a bug that caused files to be removed from an importtree=yes
exporttree=yes special remote when the remote's annex-tracking-branch was
not the currently checked out branch.
Joey Hess [Wed, 8 Feb 2023 17:55:55 +0000 (13:55 -0400)]
avoid sync pushing view branches to remotes, and better view branch names
* sync: Avoid pushing view branches to remotes.
* Changed the name of view branches to include the parent branch.
Existing view branches checked out using an old name will still work.
It does not seem useful for sync to push view branches around, because
the information in a view branch can entirely be derived from other
information in git. And sync doesn't push adjusted branches around either.
The better view branch names make it more in line with adjusted branch
names, but were also needed to make fromViewBranch be able to return the
original branch name.
Kept the old view branch names still working. But, when those branches
exist in a repo, sync will still try to push them as before. Avoiding
that would need more complicated and/or expensive changes to sync.
Joey Hess [Tue, 7 Feb 2023 22:09:10 +0000 (18:09 -0400)]
add FIELD?=GLOB to git-annex view usage
And also to vadd usage.
Also added some other things to the usage that were omitted before to
save space.
Adding even FIELD?=GLOB made the git-annex --help list of commands grow
too wide for an 80 column display. So, removed the description of
parameters from that list of commands.
Joey Hess [Tue, 7 Feb 2023 20:28:46 +0000 (16:28 -0400)]
add directory to views for files that lack specified metadata
* view: New field?=glob and ?tag syntax that includes a directory "_"
in the view for files that do not have the specified metadata set.
* Added annex.viewunsetdirectory git config to change the name of the
"_" directory in a view.
When in a view using the new syntax, old git-annex will fail to parse the
view log. It errors with "Not in a view.", which is not ideal. But that
only affects view commands.
annex.viewunsetdirectory is included in the View for a couple of reasons.
One is to avoid needing to warn the user that it should not be changed when
in a view, since that would confuse git-annex. Another reason is that it
helped with plumbing the value through to some pure functions.
annex.viewunsetdirectory is actually mangled the same as any other view
directory. So if it's configured to something like "N/A", there won't be
multiple levels of directories, which would also confuse git-annex.
Joey Hess [Mon, 6 Feb 2023 18:07:33 +0000 (14:07 -0400)]
S3 region=
S3: Support a region= configuration useful for some non-Amazon S3
implementations. This feature needs git-annex to be built with aws-0.24.
datacenter= sets both the AWS hostname and region in one setting, which is
easy when using AWS, but not useful for other hosts. So kept datacenter
as-is, but added this additional config.
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