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diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_101__old_mistakes.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_101__old_mistakes.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4a37416dc --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_101__old_mistakes.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +In order to remove some hackishness in `git annex sync --content`, I +finally fixed a bad design decision I made back at the very beginning +(before I really knew haskell) when I built the command seek code, which +had led to a kind of inversion of control. This took most of a night, but +it made a lot of code in git-annex clearer, and it makes the command +seeking code much more flexible in what it can do. Some of the oldest, and +worst code in git-annex was removed in the process. + +Also, I've been reworking the numcopies configuration, to allow for a +[[todo/preferred_content_numcopies_check]]. That will let the assistant, +as well as `git annex sync --content` proactively make copies when +needed in order to satisfy numcopies. + +As part of this, `git config annex.numcopies` is deprecated, and there's a +new `git annex numcopies N` command that sets the numcopies value that will +be used by any clone of a repository. + +I got the preferred content checking of numcopies working too. However, +I am unsure if checking for per-file .gitattributes annex.numcopies +settings will make preferred content expressions be, so I have left +that out for now. + +Today's work was sponsored by Josh Taylor. |