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diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_193-194__ugly_bug.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_193-194__ugly_bug.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..668b7b2ab --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_193-194__ugly_bug.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +**Important** A bug [[caused the assistant to sometimes remove all files|bugs/bad_merge_commit_deleting_all_files]] from the git repository. +You should check if your repository is ok. If the bug hit you, it should be +possible to revert the bad commit and recover your files with no data loss. +See the bug report for details. + +This affected git-annex versions since 5.20140613, and only when using the +assistant in direct mode. It should be fixed in today's release, +5.20140709. + +I'm available <urgent2014@joeyh.name> to help anyone hit by this +unfortunate bug. + +This is another bug in the direct mode merge code. I'm not happy about it. +It's particularly annoying that I can't fix up after it automatically +(because there's no way to know if any given commit in the git history that +deletes all the files is the result of this bug, or a legitimate deletion +of all files). + +The only good thing is that the design of git-annex is pretty robust, and +in this case, despite stupidly committing the deletion of all the files in +the repository, git-annex did take care to preserve all their contents and +so the problem should be able to be resolved without data loss. + +Unfortunately, the main autobuilder is down and I've had to spin up +autobuilders on a different machine (thank goodness that's very automated +now!), and so I have not been able to build the fixed git-annex for android +yet. I hope to get that done later this evening. + +--- + +Yesterday, I fixed a few (much less bad) bugs, and did some thinking about +plans for this month. The [[design/roadmap]] suggests working on some of +[[!traillink design/assistant/chunks]], [[!traillink design/assistant/deltas]] or [[!traillink design/assistant/gpgkeys]]. +I don't know how to do deltas yet really. Chunks is pretty easily done. +The gpg keys stuff is pretty open ended and needs some more work to define +some use cases. But, after today, I am more inclined to want to spend +time on better testing and other means of avoiding this kind of situation. |