git-annex (5.20131127) unstable; urgency=low

  * webapp: Detect when upgrades are available, and upgrade if the user
    desires.
    (Only when git-annex is installed using the prebuilt binaries
    from git-annex upstream, not from eg Debian.)
  * assistant: Detect when the git-annex binary is modified or replaced,
    and either prompt the user to restart the program, or automatically
    restart it.
  * annex.autoupgrade configures both the above upgrade behaviors.
  * Added support for quvi 0.9. Slightly suboptimal due to limitations in its
    interface compared with the old version.
  * Bug fix: annex.version did not get set on automatic upgrade to v5 direct
    mode repo, so the upgrade was performed repeatedly, slowing commands down.
  * webapp: Fix bug that broke switching between local repositories
    that use the new guarded direct mode.
  * Android: Fix stripping of the git-annex binary.
  * Android: Make terminal app show git-annex version number.
  * Android: Re-enable XMPP support.
  * reinject: Allow to be used in direct mode.
  * Futher improvements to git repo repair. Has now been tested in tens
    of thousands of intentionally damaged repos, and successfully
    repaired them all.
  * Allow use of --unused in bare repository.

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+Trying to record screencasts demoing the assistant is really helping me
+see things that need to be fixed.
+
+Got the version of the haskell TLS library in Debian fixed, backporting
+some changes to fix a botched security fix that made it reject all
+certificates. So WebDAV special remotes will work again on the next release.
+
+Fixed some more problems around content being dropped when files are
+moved to archive directories, and gotten again when files are
+moved out.
+
+Fixed some problems around USB drives. One was a real jaw-dropping
+bug: "git annex drop --from usbdrive" when the drive was not
+connected still updated the location log to indicate it did not have
+the file anymore! (Thank goodness for fsck..)
+
+I've noticed that moving around files in direct mode repos is inneficient,
+because the assistant re-checksums the "new" file. One way to avoid
+that would be to have a lookup table from (inode, size, mtime) to
+key, but I don't have one, and would like to avoid adding one.
+
+Instead, I have a cunning plan to deal with this heuristically. If the
+assistant can notice a file was removed and another file added at the same
+time, it can compare the (inode, size, mtime) to see if it's a rename, and
+avoid the checksum overhead.
+
+The first step to getting there was to make the assistant better at
+batching together delete+add events into a single rename commit. I'm happy
+to say I've accomplished that, with no perceptable delay to commits.