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diff --git a/doc/bugs/git-annex_adds_unicode_characters_at_end_of_checksum.mdwn b/doc/bugs/git-annex_adds_unicode_characters_at_end_of_checksum.mdwn index 84ca70bea..0534925ea 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/git-annex_adds_unicode_characters_at_end_of_checksum.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/git-annex_adds_unicode_characters_at_end_of_checksum.mdwn @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Files with special unicode characters(in this case japanese) for some reason hav This is an issue because it causes errors when using glacier-cli when uploading copies to Glacier vault. +[[!meta title="kanji in key extension cause glacier-cli upload error"]] + ### What steps will reproduce the problem? Here's how it looks for me: diff --git a/doc/bugs/git-annex_adds_unicode_characters_at_end_of_checksum/comment_5_7f5a6ba6ed7b6f720874f8ded6edaa3c._comment b/doc/bugs/git-annex_adds_unicode_characters_at_end_of_checksum/comment_5_7f5a6ba6ed7b6f720874f8ded6edaa3c._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1d8e1cabe --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/git-annex_adds_unicode_characters_at_end_of_checksum/comment_5_7f5a6ba6ed7b6f720874f8ded6edaa3c._comment @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 5""" + date="2018-03-05T14:47:20Z" + content=""" +The easy workaround to bugs like this migrate the file to the +SHA256 backend rather than SHA256E. + +It may be obvious to us that a file ending in "(feat. xy).mp3" +has an extension of ".mp3" and not of ". xy).mp3", but this is not very +obvious to git-annex, which would like to treat a file ending in ".tar.gz" +as having that compound extension. + +The only rule I can think of that would help git-annex understand this is +to not allow punctuation (other than "." in file extensions). Which it +actually already filters out of extensions, which is why the extension it +comes up with is ".xy.mp3". But it could notice the space and closing paren +in the filename and assume those are not part of an extension. It might +bite some file with an extension like .foo_", I can't recall seeing many +such extensions. Ok, made this change. + +It remains a bug in the glacier special remote if unicode characters +prevent uploading to it. We can't limit file +extensions to ascii, it's perfectly reasonable to use your native language +characters in a file extension. Leaving bug open since my change does +nothing about whatever upload bug glacier-cli has. Is the python program +failing? +"""]] |