What is the current status of v7 repositories? What has been people's experience in using them?
git-annex still defaults to v5, so it sounds like v7 is still in beta?
What is the current status of v7 repositories? What has been people's experience in using them?
git-annex still defaults to v5, so it sounds like v7 is still in beta?
The main blocker to v7 becoming the default is that its replacement for direct mode, adjusted unlocked branches, is still a new feature that has not gotten a great deal of testing and could have bugs. See http://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/v7_path_toward_default/ (I don't consider it to still be beta level though; on balance the many well known problems with direct mode are certianly worse.)
When v7 is used without any unlocked files, it is nearly identical to v5 indirect, and so is just as good. With that said, I'm not personally using it yet on my repos, because it also doesn't add any new features either..
When v7 is used with unlocked files, it is still a relatively new feature and could have bugs. That said, people do appear to be using it increasingly widely, and the last bugs fixed in it were in December 2018.
Unlocked files are also affected by http://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/git_smudge_clean_interface_suboptiomal/ although that has been worked around sufficiently well it still has some slight negative consequences.