Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

2020-05-11 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 + upstream moreinfo Dear Marco, On Sat 09 May 2020 at 12:39AM +02, Marco Ricci wrote: > Granted. I did however submit to my distro's tracker first to eliminate > the case of this being Debian's fault due to a distro-specific patch, as > I know happens with some other packages.

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

2020-05-08 Thread Marco Ricci
Control: tags 959506 upstream Control: forwarded 959506 https://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/add__58___inconsistently_treats_files_in_dotdirs_as_dotfiles/ thanks Hello Joey. Thus wrote Joey Hess: > So, this is not the git-annex bug tracker, which is where design work > on git-annex happens,

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

2020-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Marco Ricci wrote: > Thus wrote Joey Hess: > >> t seems cleaner to me to disable the automatic commit-to-other-system > >> machinery and do a manual sweep for sensitive files by hand each time > >> I check in new data. > > > > git config annex.addsmallfiles false > > While I appreciate the effort

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

2020-05-08 Thread Marco Ricci
Hello Joey. Thus wrote Joey Hess: >> t seems cleaner to me to disable the automatic commit-to-other-system >> machinery and do a manual sweep for sensitive files by hand each time >> I check in new data. > > git config annex.addsmallfiles false While I appreciate the effort in suggesting to me a

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

2020-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Marco Ricci wrote: > t seems cleaner to me to disable the > automatic commit-to-other-system machinery and do a manual sweep for > sensitive files by hand each time I check in new data. git config annex.addsmallfiles false -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

2020-05-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon 04 May 2020 at 05:17PM +02, Marco Ricci wrote: > Thus wrote Sean Whitton: >> On Sun 03 May 2020 at 08:57am +02, Marco Ricci wrote: >>> After upgrading the repository format to v8, `git annex add` sometimes >>> treats ordinary files stored in a dotdir the same as it treats dotfiles

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

2020-05-04 Thread Marco Ricci
Thus wrote Joey Hess: > Sean Whitton wrote: >> So what you are suggesting is that git-annex should treat all files >> within dotdirs as if they were themselves dotfiles? > > That is what git-annex actually does. Or rather, when asked to add > ".$foo", it does not check to see if $foo might look

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

2020-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Sean Whitton wrote: > So what you are suggesting is that git-annex should treat all files > within dotdirs as if they were themselves dotfiles? That is what git-annex actually does. Or rather, when asked to add ".$foo", it does not check to see if $foo might look like "dotdir/bar", it just sees

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

2020-05-04 Thread Marco Ricci
Thus wrote Sean Whitton: > On Sun 03 May 2020 at 08:57am +02, Marco Ricci wrote: >> After upgrading the repository format to v8, `git annex add` sometimes >> treats ordinary files stored in a dotdir the same as it treats dotfiles – >> adding them to native git and saying they are non-large files,

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

2020-05-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 03 May 2020 at 08:57am +02, Marco Ricci wrote: > I use git to keep $HOME in version control, and git-annex to version > sensitive files whose contents I do not want kept in git, e.g. `.netrc`. My > repository thus contains several dotfiles and "dotdirs". The rules for which > files

Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

2020-05-03 Thread Marco Ricci
Package: git-annex Version: 8.20200330-1 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dear Maintainer, I use git to keep $HOME in version control, and git-annex to version sensitive files whose contents I do not want kept in git, e.g. `.netrc`. My repository thus contains