git-annex 7.20190912 introduces a new repository version 7. According to the version announcement, existing v5 repositories will be automatically upgraded by default. This can be prevented by running: git config annex.autoupgraderepository false.
In instances like ONE where collection repos live on the machine itself and are never accessed by other machines (the normal use-case for Git/git-annex) this is not a problem. However in the HQ where multiple machines are working on repositories in a central file store there could be problems if some machines are upgraded but others are not.
Proposal: Add a [cmdln] annex_autoupgraderepo config flag set to False and run the config setting when doing other annex repo operations (setting description, etc).
git-annex 7.20190912 introduces a new repository version 7. According to the version announcement, existing v5 repositories will be automatically upgraded by default. This can be prevented by running:
git config annex.autoupgraderepository false.In instances like ONE where collection repos live on the machine itself and are never accessed by other machines (the normal use-case for Git/git-annex) this is not a problem. However in the HQ where multiple machines are working on repositories in a central file store there could be problems if some machines are upgraded but others are not.
Proposal: Add a
[cmdln] annex_autoupgraderepoconfig flag set toFalseand run the config setting when doing other annex repo operations (setting description, etc).