Bug#909023: git-annex: fail to copy file contents

[Sean Whitton]

control: severity -1 important

Dear Marco,

On Mon 17 Sep 2018 at 04:39PM +0200, Marco Pattaro wrote:

> in short: after upgrading to version 6.20180913-1 I'm unable to sync file
> contents.
>
> My layout is a central bare repository on a machine which runs an older version
> of git-annex (6.20160923-1) and anumber of client, direct, repositories all up
> to date with the latest debian testing release. All repositories have
> [annex]
> version = 5
>
> in their .git/config
>
> After upgrading it fails to do any of:
>
> $ git annex sync --content
> or
> $ git annex get
> or
> $ git annex copy
>
> with this error message: "fd:23: hClose: resource vanished (Broken pipe)"
>
> I'm pretty sure the issue is not in my ssh connection whish is working properly
> in other contexts, nor in git because the file index is synced correctly.
>
> Could this be an incompatibility between git-annex versions?

It could be.

Could you provide steps to reproduce, please?

I.e. please try to reproduce the bug using a fresh repository and tell
me exactly what you did.  Then I will try to replicate the problem.

I am downgrading the severity of the bug because while backwards
compatibility is desirable, the lack of it does not render the package
useless.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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