Package: git-annex Version: 3.20110707 Severity: important git-annex fails to add files if the current user is not allowed to modify the permissions. It fails after moving the files to the backend and leaves the repo without a link to the content. The files are considered unused after that.
| $ git init | Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/ | $ git annex init test | init test ok | $ sudo cp /etc/motd . | $ ls -l | total 4 | -rw-r----- 1 root root 375 17. Jul 23:07 motd | $ git annex add motd | add motd failed | git-annex: | /tmp/test/.git/annex/objects/mZ/j8/WORM-s375-m1310936857--motd/WORM-s375-m1310936857--motd: setFileMode: permission denied (Operation not permitted) | git-annex: 1 failed | $ ls -l | total 0 | $ git annex unused | unused . (checking for unused data...) | Some annexed data is no longer used by any files in the current branch: | NUMBER KEY | 1 WORM-s375-m1310936857--motd | (To see where data was previously used, try: git log --stat -S'KEY') | | To remove unwanted data: git-annex dropunused NUMBER | | Please be cautious -- are you sure that another branch, or another | repository does not still use this data? | ok -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages git-annex depends on: ii git [git-core] 1:1.7.2.5-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libffi5 3.0.9-3 Foreign Function Interface library ii libgmp10 2:5.0.1+dfsg-7 Multiprecision arithmetic library ii libpcre3 8.12-3 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii openssh-client 1:5.5p1-6 secure shell (SSH) client, for sec ii rsync 3.0.7-2 fast remote file copy program (lik ii uuid 1.6.2-1 the Universally Unique Identifier git-annex recommends no packages. Versions of packages git-annex suggests: pn bup <none> (no description available) ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep pn graphviz <none> (no description available) -- 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
