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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-04-02 17:09:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-04-02 17:09:03 -0400 |
| commit | 7d51f4bcc82661753d1dcd78df3dc811ad3ff813 (patch) | |
| tree | 78746b1629f88789e1ae0f097e337fa5e191d1be | |
| parent | f4146b9c7650d93b7ad91e934bdd777e59169101 (diff) | |
blog for the day
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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_227__bigfixing_all_day_today.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_227__bigfixing_all_day_today.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..74e9fd82f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_227__bigfixing_all_day_today.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The [[xmpp screencast|videos/git-annex_assistant_remote_sharing]] +is at long last done! + +---- + +Fixed a bug that could cause the assistant to unstage files +from git sometimes. This happened because of a bad optimisation; adding a +file when it's already present and unchanged was optimised to do nothing. +But if the file had just been removed, and was put back, this resulted +in the removal being staged, and the add not being staged. Ugly bug, +although the assistant's daily sanity check automatically restaged the +files. + +Underlying that bug was a more important problem: git-annex does not always +update working tree files atomically. So a crash at just the wrong instant +could cause a file to be deleted from the working tree. I fixed that too; +all changes to files in the working tree should now be staged in a temp +file, which is renamed into place atomically. + +Also made a bunch of improvements to the dashboard's transfer display, and +to the handling of the underlying transfer queue. |