Package: git-annex Version: 4.20131106 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Justification: causes non-serious data loss
Hi. I hope I'm not overreacting. Consider the following situation, where : 1. a file is annexed, with git annex add. 2. make the file modifiable : git annex unlock 3. modify the contents of the file. 3. git annex lock the file The lock command doesn't complain that the file was modified, and silently removes it to replace it by the link to the previous version. File changes are lost :-( It seems this is on purpose, reading the manpage : Use this to undo an unlock command if you don't want to modify the files, or have made modifications you want to dis‐ card. IMHO, this is really undesirable, as one should be warned/prompted that a commit is necessary, by default. Only with an explicit force option would lock ever erase pending changes (there's git reset for reverting changes, and having lock duplicate the behaviour is confusing for git users, IMHO). Lock should just be the inverse of unlock, i.e. no longer allowing modifications, but not *erasing* modifications, if it happens there were some. Hope this makes sense. Best regards, -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (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 curl 7.33.0-1 ii git 1:1.8.4.3-1 ii libc6 2.17-97 ii libffi6 3.0.13-4 ii libgmp10 2:5.1.2+dfsg-3 ii libgnutls26 2.12.23-8 ii libgsasl7 1.8.0-2 ii libicu48 4.8.1.1-14 ii libidn11 1.28-1 ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-3 ii libyaml-0-2 0.1.4-2 ii openssh-client 1:6.4p1-1 ii rsync 3.1.0-2 ii wget 1.14-5 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1 Versions of packages git-annex recommends: ii bind9-host 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3 ii git-remote-gcrypt 0.20130908-5 ii gnupg 1.4.15-1.1 ii lsof 4.86+dfsg-1 ii quvi 0.4.2-1 ii ssh-askpass 1:1.2.4.1-9 Versions of packages git-annex suggests: pn bup <none> ii graphviz 2.26.3-15+b1 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
