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# Introduction
Hello.
I've installed git-annex and/or git-annex assistant on Windows 7 in a corp environment (hello gotchas!).
In this post I'll describe issues I encountered, how I fixed them, and recommendations I have for the installer.
# Background
My regular domain user doesn't have permissions to write to `C:\Program Files (x86)`, so I use a secondary domain user which is in the Administrators group. I use "Run as different user" to run installers, etc. (cf. "Run as Administrator")
During msysgit installation I checked "only bash, don't add to path, don't integrate with Explorer" etc, since I like my third-party applications isolated.
# The installer
## Where to install `git-annex.exe`
The nightly build of git-annex/assistant from NEST (20140908) only prompts for the base path of the msysgit location and it installs files in `$BASE/bin` and `$BASE/cmd`... I'll try manually copying files post-install to mitigate the path issues described in other posts on this forum.
The msysgit installer (1.9.4-preview20140815) presents a certain screen with three radio options:
1. git bash only
2. just git in `cmd.exe`
3. git + unix tools in `cmd.exe`.
I *think* this is the meaning of each:
1. cmd.exe's PATH is not touched.
2. `$GITBASE/cmd` is added to PATH
3. `$GITBASE/bin` is added to PATH
Therefore, I think that if you do something so that `git-annex.exe` is added to both $GITBASE/cmd and $GITBASE/bin (perhaps a symlink or even a .lnk file) then all three user preference options will be covered.
All I did was copy `$BASE/cmd/git-annex.exe` to `$BASE/bin/git-annex.exe` and now both `git annex` and `git-annex` work in my msysgit "git bash" console. I didn't test `cmd.exe` since I selected option 1 in the msysgit installer.
## Installer locations: user profile or system-wide?
I found a shortcut for the webapp in Start Menu/Startup ... for the wrong user. Please prompt the user during the installation: "Install startup link system-wide or for current user?"
# git annex test results
## `$HOME` defaulted to some mapped drive, whoops!
The test suite has been running since before I started this post. Is that normal? :)
I notice that it emits "Detected a crippled filesystem", "Enabling direct mode." and other messages again and again. If those checks are expensive, maybe the result should be memoized/cached.
Oh goodness, the test is reading and writing to my "home directory": a remote filesystem I never use. It's slow. I'll have to configure msysgit to use a different, more local `$HOME`. This a common problem on this workstation. I'll let the test finish in case it reveals something useful to you, but this will not be how I use it going forward...
I am unable to attach `testWithMappedDriveHomeDirConsoleOutput.txt` to this post. 1 out of 84 tests failed. Here is the only case sensitive occurrence of FAIL in the console output, with some lines of context.
OK
info: Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
Disabling ssh connection caching.
Detected a crippled filesystem.
Enabling direct mode.
git-annex: Data.BloomFilter.Util.suggestSizing: capacity too large to represent
FAIL
Exception: user error (git-annex ["info","--json"] exited 1)
version: Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
Disabling ssh connection caching.
Detected a crippled filesystem.
Enabling direct mode.
git-annex version: 5.20140908-g378fbb1
build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA CryptoHash
## test results with local NTFS `$HOME`
...The console output is scrolling by much more quickly.
2 out of 84 tests failed.
prop_past_sane: OK
+++ OK, passed 1000 tests.
prop_duration_roundtrips: OK
+++ OK, passed 1000 tests.
prop_metadata_sane: OK
+++ OK, passed 1000 tests.
prop_metadata_serialize: OK
+++ OK, passed 1000 tests.
prop_branchView_legal: OK
+++ OK, passed 1000 tests.
prop_view_roundtrips: OK
+++I nOiKt, Tpeasstsse
d 1 0i0n0i tt:e sts.
prop_viewedFile_rountrips: FAIL
*** Failed! Falsifiable (after 51 tests and 1 shrink):
"a:"
Use --quickcheck-replay '50 592211036 1831676953' to reproduce.
Unit Tests
add sha1dup: init test repo
Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
Disabling ssh connection caching.
and
OK
info: Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
Disabling ssh connection caching.
Detected a crippled filesystem.
Enabling direct mode.
git-annex: Data.BloomFilter.Util.suggestSizing: capacity too large to represent
FAIL
Exception: user error (git-annex ["info","--json"] exited 1)
version: Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
Disabling ssh connection caching.
Detected a crippled filesystem.
Enabling direct mode.
git-annex version: 5.20140908-g378fbb1
build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA CryptoHash
...Note the corruption. I think this happens when I drag the scroll bar while console output is being emitted. (msysgit's problem?) I would presume and hope that this is a "display only" issue.
# Conclusion
I hope this information is helpful. I've enabled the 'email comments to me' option on this post and I'd be happy to perform further tests upon request.
Cheers!
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