From f1bd1a6527ad1ae5d6127f1a0d4db018526065f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:52:14 -0400 Subject: blog for the day --- .../assistant/blog/day_304__dropunused_safety.mdwn | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/design/assistant/blog/day_304__dropunused_safety.mdwn (limited to 'doc/design/assistant/blog/day_304__dropunused_safety.mdwn') diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_304__dropunused_safety.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_304__dropunused_safety.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..28f5dc13c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_304__dropunused_safety.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +The big news: Important behavior change in `git annex dropunused`. Now it +checks, just like `git annex drop`, that it's not dropping the last copy of +the file. So to lose data, you have to use `--force`. This continues the +recent theme of making git-annex hold on more tenaciously to old data, and +AFAIK it was the last place data could be removed without `--force`. + +Also a nice little fix to `git annex unused` so it doesn't identify +temporary files as unused if they're being used to download a file. +Fixing it was easy thanks to all the transfer logs and locking +infrastucture built for the assistant. + +Fixed a bug in the assistant where even though syncing to a network +remote was disabled, it would still sync with it every hour, or whenever +a network connection was detected. + +Working on some direct mode scalability problems when thousands of the +identical files are added. Fixing this may involvie replacing the current +simple map files with something more scalable like a sqllite database. + +While tracking that down, I also found a bug with adding a ton of files +in indirect mode, that could make the assistant stall. +Turned out to be a laziness problem. (Worst kind of Haskell bug.) Fixed. + +---- + +Today's sponsor is my sister, Anna Hess, who incidentially just put +the manuscript of her latest ebook in the family's annex prior to its +publication on Amazon this weekend. -- cgit v1.2.3