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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-05-29 15:23:05 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-05-29 15:23:05 -0400
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remove old closed bugs and todo items to speed up wiki updates and reduce size
Remove closed bugs and todos that were least edited before 2014. Command line used: for f in $(grep -l '\[\[done\]\]' *.mdwn); do if [ -z $(git log --since=2014 --pretty=oneline "$f") ]; then git rm $f; git rm -rf $(echo "$f" | sed 's/.mdwn$//'); fi; done
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-Simple, when performing various git annex command over ssh, in particular a multi-file get, and using password authentication, git annex will prompt more than once for a user password. This makes batch updates very inconvenient.
-
-> I'd suggest using ssh-agent, or a passwordless ssh key. Possibly in
-> combination with [[git-annex-shell]] if you want to lock down a
-> particular ssh key to only being able to use git-annex and git-daemon.
->
-> Combining multiple operations into a single ssh is on the todo list, but
-> very far down it. --[[Joey]]
-
->> OTOH, automatically running ssh in ControlMaster mode (and stopping it
->> at exit) would be useful and not hard thing for git-annex to do.
->>
->> It'd just need to set the appropriate config options, setting
->> ControlPath to a per-remote socket location that includes git-annex's
->> pid. Then at shutdown, run `ssh -O exit` on each such socket.
->>
->> Complicated slightly by not doing this if the user has already set up
->> more broad ssh connection caching.
->>
->> [[done]]! --[[Joey]]
-
----
-
-Slightly more elaborate design for using ssh connection caching:
-
-* Per-uuid ssh socket in `.git/annex/ssh/user@host.socket`
-* Can be shared among concurrent git-annex processes as well as ssh
- invocations inside the current git-annex.
-* Also a lock file, `.git/annex/ssh/user@host.lock`.
- Open and take shared lock before running ssh; store lock in lock pool.
- (Not locking socket directly, because ssh might want to.)
-* Run ssh like: `ssh -S .git/annex/ssh/user@host.socket -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=yes user@host`
-* At shutdown, enumerate all existing sockets, and on each:
- 1. Drop any shared lock.
- 2. Attempt to take an exclusive lock (non-blocking).
- 3. `ssh -q -S .git/annex/ssh/user@host.socket -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=yes -O stop user@host`
- (Will exit nonzero if ssh is not running on that socket.)
- 4. And then remove the socket and the lock file.
-* Do same *at startup*. Why? In case an old git-annex was interrupted
- and left behind a ssh. May have moved to a different network
- in the meantime, etc, and be stalled waiting for a response from the
- network, or talking to the wrong interface or something.
- (Ie, the reason why I don't use ssh connection caching by default.)
-* User should be able to override this, to use their own preferred
- connection caching setup. `annex.sshcaching=false`