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What an evil little bug. In retrospect, this probably bit my own test upgrades, but I ran git annex fsck
everywhere and so avoided the location log breakage.
I've fixed the bug, which also involved files with other punctuation in their names [&:%] when using the WORM backend.
The only way I have to recover repos that have already been upgraded is to run git annex fsck --fast
in each clone of such a repo, which will let it rebuild the location log information. I think that is the best way to recover; ie I can't think of a way to recover that doesn't need to do everything fsck does anyway.
When I reproduce this, the file is not gone, it's been moved under .git/annex/objects. There is no way an add can delete a file, since all it does is rename it. It would be good for it to error unwind and move the file back though.
joey@gnu:~/tmp/a>touch 663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966.gif joey@gnu:~/tmp/a>git annex add *.gif add 663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966.gif failed git-annex: /home/joey/tmp/a/.git/annex/tmp/8e2_6a4_WORM-s0-m1310069979--663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966.gif.log: openBinaryFile: invalid argument (File name too long) joey@gnu:~/tmp/a>touch 663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966.gif joey@gnu:~/tmp/a>git annex add *.gif add 663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966.gif failed git-annex: /home/joey/tmp/a/.git/annex/tmp/8e2_6a4_WORM-s0-m1310069979--663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966.gif.log: openBinaryFile: invalid argument (File name too long) joey@gnu:~/tmp/a>find .git/annex/objects -type f .git/annex/objects/Mk/92/WORM-s0-m1310069979--663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966.gif/WORM-s0-m1310069979--663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966687474703a2f2f6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f74756d626c725f6c656673756557324c703171663879656b2e676966.gif
The rsync or directory special remotes would work if the media player uses metadata in the files, rather than directory locations.
Beyond that there is the smudge idea, which is hoped to be supported sometime.
Ah, great, thanks very much for the quick fix!
Yes, when I mentioned three defunct git processes, there were three processes shown as "git [defunct]", plus the three git processes I listed, plus two "git-annex" processes. Upon cancel/resume, there were no defunct git processes when I checked, but by the time I found the bug report on the forum and commented I'd already successfully upgraded by annex (by repeatedly attaching strace) and couldn't really easily get at either additional 'ps' info or a fuller strace than what I posted (that was just the log from one of the attach/detach cycles), so it's a relief you managed to pinpoint the problem.
git annex fsck
or reset to the old git tree (and git config annex.version 2
) and upgrade again.