Please describe the problem.
Somehow in my repo, perhaps since I started using the webapp, some of the files which have been commited plain into git have become annexed and turned into broken symlinks. However, they are not marked as stored in any repositories, so it is difficult to recover them (they need to be checked out again from git history).
What steps will reproduce the problem?
I'm not sure how this happened.
What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
I've been using builds of git annex between february and april of 2016, on linux.
Please provide any additional information below.
It looks like the problem occurred on Sun Apr 10 00:49:27 2016 -0400. I'm mostly recording here that this problem happened, as a lot is on my backlog atm, but if somebody wanted to let me know what logs to investigate, I plan to still be using this repository into the future.
It looks like the system which caused this problem had a looser largefiles setting than the system which added the files to git. It looks like it was using the 6.20160229-g37a89cc build.
Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)
Git-annex rocks, I am a monthly flatr'r.
Seems that there are two potential bugs here; a file that was stored in git somehow got stored in the annex instead, and something seems to have happened to the content of the file in the annex.
Try using
git annex logto see where the content of the file was stored in the past and when the content got marked as no longer being present.A looser annex.largefiles setting could result in a modified file that had been stored in git being stored in the annex instead. Look at the symlink that was checked into git for the annexed file and compare that with the sha256sum of the file that you rescued from the git history. Are they the same or different?
The checksum of a file is the same as the generated symlink name.
For a file which had the issue,
git annex logappears empty. I usedgit checkout [revision] [filename]to get the old version of the file in the newly versioned repo, not sure if that would confusegit annex log.