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

[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 –
>>> adding them to native git and saying they are non-large files, even when
>>> `annex.largefiles` is not configured. I am aware that dotfiles are forced to
>>> git by default unless I set `annex.dotfiles`, but I do not expect this to
>>> happen with non-dotfiles, even if they are located within dotdirs.
>>
>> So what you are suggesting is that git-annex should treat all files
>> within dotdirs as if they were themselves dotfiles?
>
> No. The opposite. A dotfile is, by definition, a file whose basename
> begins with a dot. And that doesn't apply to files in dotdirs, in
> general. Thus git-annex should be treating them like normal files. IMO.

I'm sorry, the opposite was what I meant to type.  Thank you for the
follow-up.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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