Felt spread thin yesterday, as I was working on multiple things concurrently & bouncing around as compiles finished. Been working to get openssh to build for Android, which is quite a pain, starting with getting openssl to build and then dealing with the Cyanogenmod patches, some of which are necessary to build on Android and some of which break builds outside Cyanogenmod. At the same time was testing git-annex on Android. Found and fixed several more portability bugs while doing that. And on the back burner I was making some changes to the webapp..

(Forgot to commit my blog post yesterday too..)

Today, that all came together.

• When adding another local repository in the webapp, it now allows you to choose whether it should be combined with your current repository, or kept separate. Several people had requested a way to add local clones with the webapp, for various reasons, like wanting a backup repository, or wanting to make a repository on a NFS server, and this allows doing that.

• More porting fun. FAT filesystems and other things used on Android can get all new inode numbers each time mounted. Made git-annex use a sentinal file to detect when this has happened, since in direct mode it compares inodes. (As a bonus this also makes copying direct mode repositories between filesystems work.)

• Got openssh building for Android. Changed it to use $HOME/.ssh rather than trusting pwent.

• Got git-annex's ssh connection caching working on Android. That needs a place where it can create a socket. When the repository is on a crippled filesystem, it instead puts the socket in a temporary directory set up on the filesystem where the git-annex program resides.

With ssh connection caching, transferring multiple files off my Android tablet screams! I was seeing 6.5 megabytes transferred per second, sustained over a whole month's worth of photos.

Next problem: git annex assistant on Android is for some reason crashing with a segfault on startup. Especially odd since git annex watch works. I'm so close to snap-photo-and-it-syncs-nirvana, but still so far away...