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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2015-12-29 15:41:09 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2015-12-29 15:41:09 -0400
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tree9da82a7f657ba8873de4f8b0f8b4592b34011769 /doc/todo
parentc40dad95d5ff114f15db9779fdbff455b913a9d5 (diff)
automatic conflict resolution for v6 unlocked files
Several tricky parts: * When the conflict is just between the same key being locked and unlocked, the unlocked version wins, and the file is not renamed in this case. * Need to update associated file map when conflict resolution renames an unlocked file. * git merge runs the smudge filter on the conflicting file, and actually overwrites the file with the same content it had before, and so invalidates its inode cache. This makes it difficult to know when it's safe to remove such files as conflict cruft, without going so far as to compare their entire contents. Dealt with this by preventing the smudge filter from populating the file when a merge is run. However, that also prevents the smudge filter being run for non-conflicting files, so eg moving a file won't put its new content into place. * Ideally, if a merge or a merge conflict resolution renames an unlocked file, the file in the work tree can just be moved, rather than copying the content to a new worktree file. This is attempted to be done in merge conflict resolution, but due to git merge's behavior of running smudge filters, what actually seems to happen is the old worktree file with the content is deleted and rewritten as a pointer file, so doesn't get reused. So, this is probably not as efficient as it optimally could be. If that becomes a problem, could look into running the merge in a separate worktree and updating the real worktree more efficiently, similarly to the direct mode merge. However, the direct mode merge had a lot of bugs, and I'd rather not use that more error-prone method unless really needed.
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@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@ git-annex should use smudge/clean filters.
(And should avoid unlocking an object with a hard link if it's hard
linked to a shared clone, but that's already accomplished because it
avoids unlocking an object if it's hard linked at all)
-* Make automatic merge conflict resolution work for pointer files.
- - Should probably automatically handle merge conflicts between annex
- symlinks and pointer files too. Maybe by always resulting in a pointer
- file, since the symlinks don't work everwhere.
* Crippled filesystem should cause all files to be transparently unlocked.
Note that this presents problems when dealing with merge conflicts and
when pushing changes committed in such a repo. Ideally, should avoid