git-annex has a new nicer versions of its logo, thanks to John Lawrence.
Finally tracked down a week-old bug about the watcher crashing. It turned out to crash when it encountered a directory containing a character that's invalid in the current locale. I've noticed that 'ü' is often the character I get bug reports about. After reproducing the bug I quickly tracked it down to code in the haskell hinotify library, and sent in a patch.
Also uploaded a fixed hinotify to Debian, and deployed it to all 3 of the autobuilder chroots. That took much more time than actually fixing the bug. Quite a lot of yak shaving went on actually. Oh well. The Linux autobuilders are updated to use Debian unstable again, which is nice.
Fixed a bug that prevented annex.diskreserve to be honored when storing files encrypted in a directory special remote.
Taught the webapp the difference between initializing a new special remote and enabling an existing special remote, which fixed some bad behavior when it got confused.
And then for the really fun bug of the day! A user sent me a large file which badly breaks git annex add. Adding the file causes a symlink to be set up, but the file's content is not stored in the annex. Indeed, it's deleted. This is the first data loss bug since January 2012.
Turns out it was caused by the code that handles the dummy files git uses
in place of symlinks on FAT etc filesystems. Code that had no business
running when core.symlinks=true. Code that was prone to false positives
when looking at a tarball of a git-annex repository. So I put in multiple
fixes for this bug. I'll be making a release on Monday.
Today's work was sponsored by Mikhail Barabanov. Thanks, Mikhail!
Yeah, with the last name of "Pflüger" I also usually find bugs having to do with the letter "ü". (-; I guess it is simply one of the more frequent german umlauts, especially in names (the classic "Müller", which is one of the most common last names in Germany). And apparently the German cabal strikes here again.