Package: git-annex Version: 3.20121001 Severity: important Hi,
I had quite an unfortunate experience with the new assistant/webapp feature in git-annex. I clicked on the menu icon, the webapp started and git-annex started watching my home directory which happens to contain a git repository, but no annex. I didn't get the "Welcome to git-annex" prompt in the browser and git-annex started to watch and annex everything. Then, I got scared ;) and just killed the git-annex process. It appears to be due to a residual git-annex configuration in this repository. Namely, I used to annex things there but later uninit the repository. But the remaining annex.version=3 setting was enough to trigger this unacknowledged watch. The surprising (and scary) thing is that git-annex started to handle files from another nested repository which already had an annex (namely ~/images) and broke it. I could fix it later with fsck, though. I also had to reset the home repository a few commits back to get to the original state and then deleted the annex. I tried again with a fresh user and could easily reproduced this behaviour. Deleting the "annex" section in the git repository configuration is apparently enough to get the prompt in the webapp and avoid the unexpected/unacknowledged watch. I probably don't understand everything but these leftovers in the repository configuration after uninit apparently have considerable consequences... -- Denis Laxalde -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages git-annex depends on: ii git 1:1.7.10.4-1 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libffi5 3.0.10-3 ii libgmp10 2:5.0.5+dfsg-2 ii libpcre3 1:8.31-1 ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-5 ii libyaml-0-2 0.1.4-2 ii openssh-client 1:6.0p1-3 ii rsync 3.0.9-3 ii uuid 1.6.2-1.3 ii wget 1.14-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages git-annex recommends: ii gnupg 1.4.12-4+b1 ii lsof 4.86+dfsg-1 Versions of packages git-annex suggests: pn bup <none> pn graphviz <none> ii libnss-mdns 0.10-3.2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
