Now I have a proof of concept adjusted branches implementation, that creates a branch where all locked files are adjusted to be unlocked. It works!

Building the adjusted branch is pretty fast; around 2 thousand files per second. And, I have a trick in my back pocket that could double that speed. It's important this be quite fast, because it'll be done often.

Checking out the adjusted branch can be bit slow though, since git runs git annex smudge once per unlocked file. So that might need to be optimised somehow. On the other hand, this should be done only rarely.

I like that it generates reproducible git commits so the same adjustments of the same branch will always have the same sha, no matter when and where it's done. Implementing that involved parsing git commit objects.

Next step will be merging pulled changes into the adjusted branch, while maintaining the desired adjustments.