The big news: Important behavior change in git annex dropunused. Now it checks, just like git annex drop, that it's not dropping the last copy of the file. So to lose data, you have to use --force. This continues the recent theme of making git-annex hold on more tenaciously to old data, and AFAIK it was the last place data could be removed without --force.

Also a nice little fix to git annex unused so it doesn't identify temporary files as unused if they're being used to download a file. Fixing it was easy thanks to all the transfer logs and locking infrastucture built for the assistant.

Fixed a bug in the assistant where even though syncing to a network remote was disabled, it would still sync with it every hour, or whenever a network connection was detected.

Working on some direct mode scalability problems when thousands of the identical files are added. Fixing this may involvie replacing the current simple map files with something more scalable like a sqllite database.

While tracking that down, I also found a bug with adding a ton of files in indirect mode, that could make the assistant stall. Turned out to be a laziness problem. (Worst kind of Haskell bug.) Fixed.

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Today's sponsor is my sister, Anna Hess, who incidentially just put the manuscript of her latest ebook in the family's annex prior to its publication on Amazon this weekend.