A long time ago I made Remote be an instance of the Ord typeclass, with an implementation that compared the costs of Remotes. That seemed like a good idea at the time, as it saved typing.. But at the time I was still making custom Read and Show instances too. I've since learned that this is not a good idea, and neither is making custom Ord instances, without deep thought about the possible sets of values in a type.

This Ord instance came around and bit me when I put Remotes into a Set, because now remotes with the same cost appeared to be in the Set even if they were not. Also affected putting Remotes into a Map. I noticed this when the webapp got confused about which Remotes were paused.

Rarely does a bug go this deep. I've fixed it comprehensively, first removing the Ord instance entirely, and fixing the places that wanted to order remotes by cost to do it explicitly. Then adding back an Ord instance that is much more sane. Also by checking the rest of the Ord (and Eq) instances in the code base (which were all ok).

While doing that, I found lots of places that kept remotes in Maps and Sets. All of it was probably subtly broken in one way or another before this fix, but it would be hard to say exactly how the bugs would manifest.

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Also fought some with Google Talk today. Seem to be missing presence messages sometimes. Ugh. May have fixed it, but I've thought that before..

Made --debug include a sanitized dump of the XMPP protocol.

Made UI changes to encourage user to install git-annex on the server when adding a ssh server, rather than just funneling them through to rsync.

Fixed UI glitches in XMPP username/password prompt.

Switched all forms in the webapp to use POST, to avoid sensitive information leaking on the url bar.

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Added an incremental backup group. Repositories in this group only want files that have not been backed up somewhere else yet.