Got object sending working in direct mode. However, I don't yet have a reliable way to deal with files being modified while they're being transferred. I have code that detects it on the sending side, but the receiver is still free to move the wrong content into its annex, and record that it has the content. So that's not acceptable, and I'll need to work on it some more. However, at this point I can use a direct mode repository as a remote and transfer files from and to it.
Automated updating of the cached mtime, etc data. Next I need to automate
generation of the key to filename mapping files. I'm thinking that I'll make
git annex sync do it. Then, once I get committing and
merging working in direct mode repositories (which is likely to be a
good week's worth of work), the workflow for using these repositories
will be something like this:
git config annex.direct true
git annex sync # pulls any changes, merges, updates maps and caches
git annex get
# modify files
git annex sync # commits and pushes changes
And once I get direct mode repositories working to this degree at the command line, I can get on with adding support to the assistant.
Also did some more work today on the OSX app. Am in the middle of getting it to modify the binaries in the app to change the paths to the libraries they depend on. This will avoid the hacky environment variable it is currently using, and make runshell a much more usable environment. It's the right way to do it. (I can't believe I just said RPATH was the right way to do anything.)
In the middle of this, I discovered http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-macosx, which does the same type of thing.
Anyway, I have to do some crazy hacks to work around short library name fields in executables that I don't want to have to be specially rebuilt in order to build the webapp. Like git.