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diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_121__special_remote_maintenance.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_121__special_remote_maintenance.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..551704885 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_121__special_remote_maintenance.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Turns out that in the last release I broke making box.com, Amazon S3 and +Glacier remotes from the webapp. Fixed that. + +Also, dealt with changes in the haskell DAV library that broke support for +box.com, and worked around an exception handling bug in the library. + +I think I should try to enhance the test suite so it can run live tests +on special remotes, which would at least have caught the some of these +recent problems... + +---- + +Since metadata is tied to a particular key, editing an annexed file, +which causes the key to change, made the metadata seem to get lost. + +I've now fixed this; it copies the metadata from the old version to the new +one. (Taking care to copy the log file identically, so git can reuse its +blob.) + +That meant that `git annex add` has to check every file it adds to see if +there's an old version. Happily, that check is fairly fast; I benchmarked my +laptop running 2500 such checks a second. So it's not going to slow things +down appreciably. |