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+After a month away building [debug-me](https://debug-me.branchable.com/)
+I'm back working on git-annex. I hope debug-me will be useful for debugging
+git-annex in some situations BTW.
+
+Pushed a release yesterday that was mostly changes from back in March.
+It also updated the git bundled with git-annex to fix the recent git-shell
+security hole.
+
+After work on Monday and today, I am caught up with all the recent month's
+backlog, but still have 230 old backlogged messages to get to.
+
+The first consequental thing I got back to was improving ssh password
+prompting when git-annex is running concurrently with -J. It used to start
+up several ssh's at the same time, so connection caching didn't kick in,
+and there could be a bunch of ssh password prompts at the same time. Now
+there will never be more than one ssh password prompt at once, and only one
+prompt per host. (As long as connection caching is enabled.)
+
+That mostly works, but `git annex drop -J` exposes a bug in it, which I'll
+have to get back to tomorrow.