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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-07-20 19:47:57 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-07-20 19:47:57 -0400 |
| commit | 096fdeded1bb70862933afbaa737740f58703bf2 (patch) | |
| tree | ed275c3beac6f7305321d9b11a5641a917119c4e | |
| parent | cbb7fa06f2cc8b5aa312bd1b82ecae0c8cdbbcd5 (diff) | |
blog for the day
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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_300__new_logo.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_300__new_logo.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9e13c4b13 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_300__new_logo.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +git-annex has a new nicer versions of its [[logo]], thanks to John Lawrence. + +Finally tracked down a week-old bug about the watcher crashing. It turned +out to crash when it encountered a directory containing a character that's +invalid in the current locale. I've noticed that 'ΓΌ' is often the character I +get bug reports about. After reproducing the bug I quickly tracked it down +to code in the haskell hinotify library, and sent in a patch. + +Also uploaded a fixed hinotify to Debian, and deployed it to all 3 of the +autobuilder chroots. That took much more time than actually fixing the bug. +Quite a lot of yak shaving went on actually. Oh well. The Linux +autobuilders are updated to use Debian unstable again, which is nice. + +Fixed a bug that prevented annex.diskreserve to be honored when storing +files encrypted in a directory special remote. + +Taught the webapp the difference between initializing a new special remote +and enabling an existing special remote, which fixed some bad behavior when +it got confused. + +---- + +And then for the really fun bug of the day! A user sent me a large file +which badly breaks git annex add. Adding the file causes a symlink to be +set up, but the file's content is not stored in the annex. Indeed, it's +deleted. This is the first data loss bug since January 2012. + +Turns out it was caused by the code that handles the dummy files git uses +in place of symlinks on FAT etc filesystems. Code that had no business +running when `core.symlinks=true`. Code that was prone to false positives +when looking at a tarball of a git-annex repository. So I put in multiple +fixes for this bug. I'll be making a release on Monday. + +---- + +Today's work was sponsored by Mikhail Barabanov. Thanks, Mikhail! |