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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2017-09-12 17:45:52 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2017-09-12 17:45:52 -0400
commit54fa27f616a38a24201479022b115cdac5f6f803 (patch)
tree9f2fdf02512101dea9b4945a9bb1fdec241c7b29 /doc/internals.mdwn
parent89cd37ff4a24f9da071438e06d3a41861780a117 (diff)
change export.log format to support multiple export remotes
This breaks backwards compatibility, but only with unreleased versions of git-annex, which I think is acceptable. This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/internals.mdwn b/doc/internals.mdwn
index ccf1e09b6..5abe7aa07 100644
--- a/doc/internals.mdwn
+++ b/doc/internals.mdwn
@@ -186,20 +186,22 @@ Tracks what trees have been exported to special remotes by
[[git-annex-export]](1).
Each line starts with a timestamp, then the uuid of the repository
-that exported to the special remote, followed by the sha1 of the tree
-that was exported, and then by the uuid of the special remote.
+that exported to the special remote, followed by a colon (`:`) and
+the uuid of the special remote. Then, separated by a spaces,
+the sha1 of the tree that was exported, and optionally any number of
+subsequent sha1s, of trees that have started to be exported but whose
+export is not yet complete.
-There can also be subsequent sha1s, of trees that have started to be
-exported but whose export is not yet complete. The sha1 of the exported
-tree can be the empty tree (4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904)
-in order to record the beginning of the first export.
+In order to record the beginning of the first export, where nothing
+has been exported yet, the sha1 of the exported tree can be
+the empty tree (4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904).
For example:
- 1317929100.012345s e605dca6-446a-11e0-8b2a-002170d25c55 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 26339d22-446b-11e0-9101-002170d25c55 bb08b1abd207aeecccbc7060e523b011d80cb35b
- 1317929100.012345s e605dca6-446a-11e0-8b2a-002170d25c55 bb08b1abd207aeecccbc7060e523b011d80cb35b 26339d22-446b-11e0-9101-002170d25c55
- 1317929189.157237s e605dca6-446a-11e0-8b2a-002170d25c55 bb08b1abd207aeecccbc7060e523b011d80cb35b 26339d22-446b-11e0-9101-002170d25c55 7c7af825782b7c8706039b855c72709993542be4
- 1317923000.251111s e605dca6-446a-11e0-8b2a-002170d25c55 7c7af825782b7c8706039b855c72709993542be4 26339d22-446b-11e0-9101-002170d25c55
+ 1317929100.012345s e605dca6-446a-11e0-8b2a-002170d25c55:26339d22-446b-11e0-9101-002170d25c55 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 bb08b1abd207aeecccbc7060e523b011d80cb35b
+ 1317929100.012345s e605dca6-446a-11e0-8b2a-002170d25c55:26339d22-446b-11e0-9101-002170d25c55 bb08b1abd207aeecccbc7060e523b011d80cb35b
+ 1317929189.157237s e605dca6-446a-11e0-8b2a-002170d25c55:26339d22-446b-11e0-9101-002170d25c55 bb08b1abd207aeecccbc7060e523b011d80cb35b 7c7af825782b7c8706039b855c72709993542be4
+ 1317923000.251111s e605dca6-446a-11e0-8b2a-002170d25c55:26339d22-446b-11e0-9101-002170d25c55 7c7af825782b7c8706039b855c72709993542be4
(The trees are also grafted into the git-annex branch, at
`export.tree`, to prevent git from garbage collecting it. However, the head