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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-10-16 12:46:24 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-10-16 12:46:24 -0400 |
| commit | 3a31b000bbe0db0948f0422020f7381909b93e57 (patch) | |
| tree | 9fc63f92be8415d15bd4ac82f47b9079683092ed /doc | |
| parent | 12a038aa806f16004f4e4afa8f3ee9fa752eae29 (diff) | |
tighten file2key to not produce invalid keys with no keyName
A file named "foo-" or "foo-bar" was taken as a key's file, with a backend
of "foo", and an empty keyName. This led to various problems, especially
because converting that key back to a file did not yeild the same filename.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/git-annex:_status:_1_failed.mdwn | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/git-annex:_status:_1_failed.mdwn b/doc/bugs/git-annex:_status:_1_failed.mdwn index 31089b53b..65f00469c 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/git-annex:_status:_1_failed.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/git-annex:_status:_1_failed.mdwn @@ -14,3 +14,12 @@ i get : how could i fix this issue ? many thanks for help + +> [[done]]; I managed to reproduce this bug by making a temp file named +> ".git/annex/tmp/foo-", or indeed with any dash in it. This is enough +> to make git-annex think it's a key, but badly formed enough that +> it fails trying to use that key. Fixed to ignore such non-key files. +> +> I'm unsure why `.git/annex/tmp` would have such files in it. +> Perhaps the assistant was running, but crashed while adding files? +> --[[Joey]] |