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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_265__correctness.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_265__correctness.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a4415b444 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_265__correctness.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Laid some groundwork for porting the test suite to Windows, and getting it +working in direct mode. That's not complete, but even starting to run the +test suite in direct mode and looking at all the failures (many of them +benign, like files not being symlinks) highlighted something +I have been meaning to look into for quite a while: Why, in direct mode, +`git-annex` doesn't operate on data staged in the index, but requires you +commit changes to files before it'll see them. That's an annoying +difference between direct and indirect modes. + +It turned out that I introduced this behavior back on +[[January 5th|day_163__free_features]], working around a nasty +bug I didn't understand. Bad Joey, should have root caused the bug at the +time! But the commit says I was stuck on it for hours, and it was +presenting as if it was a bug in `git cat-file` itself, so ok. Anyway, +I quickly got to the bottom of it today, fixed the underlying bug (which +was in git-annex, not git itself), and got rid of the workaround and its +undesired consequences. Much better. + +The test suite is turning up some other minor problems with direct mode. +Should have found time to port it earlier. + +Also, may have fixed the issue that was preventing GTalk from working on +Android. (Missing DNS library so it didn't do SRV lookups right.) |