Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

Control: tags 959506 upstream Control: forwarded 959506 https://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/add__58___inconsistently_treats_files_in_dotdirs_as_dotfiles/ thanks Hello Joey. Thus wrote Joey Hess: > So, this is not the git-annex bug tracker, which is where design work > on git-annex happens,

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

Hello Joey. Thus wrote Joey Hess: >> t seems cleaner to me to disable the automatic commit-to-other-system >> machinery and do a manual sweep for sensitive files by hand each time >> I check in new data. > > git config annex.addsmallfiles false While I appreciate the effort in suggesting to me a

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

Thus wrote Joey Hess: > Sean Whitton wrote: >> So what you are suggesting is that git-annex should treat all files >> within dotdirs as if they were themselves dotfiles? > > That is what git-annex actually does. Or rather, when asked to add > ".$foo", it does not check to see if $foo might look

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

Thus wrote Sean Whitton: > On Sun 03 May 2020 at 08:57am +02, Marco Ricci wrote: >> After upgrading the repository format to v8, `git annex add` sometimes >> treats ordinary files stored in a dotdir the same as it treats dotfiles – >> adding them to native git and saying the

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

Package: git-annex Version: 8.20200330-1 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dear Maintainer, I use git to keep $HOME in version control, and git-annex to version sensitive files whose contents I do not want kept in git, e.g. `.netrc`. My repository thus contains

Bug#918719: task-spooler option -w does not appear to work as intended

Greetings! Thus spoke Alexander Inyukhin: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 06:08:00PM +0100, Davide Monsorno > wrote: > > I have tried to use task spooler in order to launch 2 tasks > > (a1,a2) in parallel, followed by 3 tasks (b1,b2,b3) in > > parallel. To this end, I have increased the maximum number

Bug#684405: git-annex fails on repositories with gitfiles

that (1) created (a gitfile, see [2]) and which git-annex seemingly doesn't support. While it's probably feasible to add support for gitfiles in a manner similar to [1], I believe the correct fix is to always query vanilla git for the location of the git-dir, as in (5). Regards, Marco Ricci [1