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+After a month away building [debug-me](https://debug-me.branchable.com/)
+I'm back working on git-annex. I hope debug-me will be useful for debugging
+git-annex in some situations BTW.
+
+Pushed a release yesterday that was mostly changes from back in March.
+It also updated the git bundled with git-annex to fix the recent git-shell
+security hole.
+
+After work on Monday and today, I am caught up with all the recent month's
+backlog, but still have 230 old backlogged messages to get to.
+
+The first consequental thing I got back to was improving ssh password
+prompting when git-annex is running concurrently with -J. It used to start
+up several ssh's at the same time, so connection caching didn't kick in,
+and there could be a bunch of ssh password prompts at the same time. Now
+there will never be more than one ssh password prompt at once, and only one
+prompt per host. (As long as connection caching is enabled.)
+
+That mostly works, but `git annex drop -J` exposes a bug in it, which I'll
+have to get back to tomorrow.
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2017-05-11T21:57:24Z"
+ content="""
+Current status: It's implemented, but not for `GIT_SSH` yet.
+
+`git annex get -J 3` seems to work well.
+
+`git annex drop -J 3` sometimes (once per 5 or so tries) runs
+2 ssh processes both prompting at once. For example:
+
+	21555 pts/3    S+     0:00      |           \_ ssh localhost -S .git/annex/ssh/localhost -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=yes -T git-annex-shell 'lockcontent' '/~/tmp/b/a' 'SHA256E-s30--ec748fe42378798b82ddf4e6b3e778a0cbc5d76d458685af01dc1f09cc423eb7' --uuid ad19d177-519e-4440-a9c9-0c9cddd99db2
+	21556 pts/3    S+     0:00      |           \_ ssh localhost -S .git/annex/ssh/localhost -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=yes -n -T git-annex-shell inannex .
+
+The inannex is what's used to bring up the ssh connection, so
+I don't immediately understand how the lockcontent could run before
+the ssh connection is brought up.
+"""]]