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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-11-28 22:47:11 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-11-28 22:55:40 -0400
commitf4bf444ae0933f80b4ec1849ea1c44da43008499 (patch)
treec592dfe3cc68ef8c755c622dc33b42e3cdc256cd
parentda9cd315beb03570b96f83063a39e799fe01b166 (diff)
store content in hashDirLower directories in bare repositories
When storing content in bare repositories, use the hashDirLower directories. Bare repositories can be on USB drives, which might use the FAT filesystem, and fall afoul of recent bugs in linux's handling of mixed case on FAT. Using hashDirLower avoids that.
-rw-r--r--Locations.hs5
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog8
-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/case_sensitivity_on_FAT.mdwn (renamed from doc/bugs/directory_remote_and_case_sensitivity_on_FAT.mdwn)3
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Locations.hs b/Locations.hs
index 425e4fdcf..fb5ee517e 100644
--- a/Locations.hs
+++ b/Locations.hs
@@ -75,7 +75,10 @@ annexLocations key = [using hashDirMixed, using hashDirLower]
gitAnnexLocation :: Key -> Git.Repo -> IO FilePath
gitAnnexLocation key r
| Git.repoIsLocalBare r =
- go (Git.workTree r) $ annexLocations key
+ -- bare repositories default to hashDirLower for new
+ -- content, as it's more portable, so check locations
+ -- in reverse order
+ go (Git.workTree r) $ reverse $ annexLocations key
| otherwise =
go (Git.workTree r </> ".git") $ annexLocations key
where
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9cd915885..8da74af2f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
git-annex (3.20111123) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
- * Put a workaround in the directory special remote for strange behavior
- with VFAT filesystems on Linux (mounted with shortname=mixed)
+ * The VFAT filesystem on recent versions of Linux, when mounted with
+ shortname=mixed, does not get along well with git-annex's mixed case
+ .git/annex/objects hash directories. To better support it, bare
+ repositories (and the directory special remote) now store content
+ in all-lowercase hash directories. Mixed case hash directories are
+ still used for non-bare directories, which cannot be put in VFAT.
* Flush json output, avoiding a buffering problem that could result in
doubled output.
* Avoid needing haskell98 and other fixes for new ghc. Thanks, Mark Wright.
diff --git a/doc/bugs/directory_remote_and_case_sensitivity_on_FAT.mdwn b/doc/bugs/case_sensitivity_on_FAT.mdwn
index ae653d619..cb3424e34 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/directory_remote_and_case_sensitivity_on_FAT.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/case_sensitivity_on_FAT.mdwn
@@ -42,4 +42,5 @@ I wonder if the directory remote should use hashDirLower instead of hashDirMixed
>> and for the even more unlikely configuration of a rsync special remote
>> stored on VFAT. --[[Joey]]
-[[!meta title="bare git repository not supported on VFAT"]]
+>>> Bare repositories now use lowercase. rsync is the only remaining
+>>> unsupported possibility. --[[Joey]]