Datalad

🐛 Bug Fixes

- Various small fixups ran after looking post-release and trying to build Debian package. [PR 7112](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7112) (by [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

- BF: Fix add-archive-contents try-finally statement by defining variable earlier. [PR 7117](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7117) (by [adswa](https://github.com/adswa))

- Fix RIA file URL reporting in exception handling. [PR 7123](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7123) (by [adswa](https://github.com/adswa))

- HTTP download treated '429 - too many requests' as an authentication issue and
was consequently trying to obtain credentials.
Fixes [7129](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/7129) via
[PR 7129](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7129)
(by [bpoldrack](https://github.com/bpoldrack))

🔩 Dependencies

- Unrestrict pytest and pytest-cov versions. [PR 7125](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7125) (by [jwodder](https://github.com/jwodder))

- Remove remaining references to `nose` and the implied requirement for building the documentation
Fixes [7100](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/7100) via
[PR 7136](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7136)
(by [bpoldrack](https://github.com/bpoldrack))

🏠 Internal

- Use datalad/release-action. Fixes [7110](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/7110). [PR #7111](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7111) (by [jwodder](https://github.com/jwodder))

- Fix all logging to use %-interpolation and not .format, sort imports in touched files, add pylint-ing for % formatting in log messages to `tox -e lint`. [PR 7118](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7118) (by [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

🧪 Tests

- Increase the upper time limit after which we assume that a process is stalling.
That should reduce false positives from `datalad.support.tests.test_parallel.py::test_stalling`,
without impacting the runtime of passing tests.
[PR 7119](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7119)
(by [christian-monch](https://github.com/christian-monch))

- XFAIL a check on length of results in test_gracefull_death. [PR 7126](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7126) (by [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

- Configure Git to allow for "file" protocol in tests. [PR 7130](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7130) (by [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

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Bug Fixes

- Prevent adding duplicate entries to .gitmodules. [PR 7088](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7088) (by [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

- [BF] Prevent double yielding of impossible get result
Fixes [5537](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/5537).
[PR 7093](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7093) (by
[jsheunis](https://github.com/jsheunis))

- Stop rendering the output of internal `subdatset()` call in the
results of `run_procedure()`.
Fixes [7091](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/7091) via
[PR 7094](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7094)
(by [mslw](https://github.com/mslw) & [mih](https://github.com/mih))

- Improve handling of `--existing reconfigure` in
`create-sibling-ria`: previously, the command would not make the
underlying `git init` call for existing local repositories, leading
to some configuration updates not being applied. Partially addresses
https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/6967 via
https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7095 (by mslw)

- Ensure subprocess environments have a valid path in `os.environ['PWD']`,
even if a Path-like object was given to the runner on subprocess creation
or invocation.
Fixes [7040](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/7040) via
[PR 7107](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7107)
(by [christian-monch](https://github.com/christian-monch))

- Improved reporting when using `dry-run` with github-like
`create-sibling*` commands (`-gin`, `-gitea`, `-github`,
`-gogs`). The result messages will now display names of the
repositories which would be created (useful for recursive
operations).
[PR 7103](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7103)
(by [mslw](https://github.com/mslw))

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Bug Fixes

- Let `EnsureChoice` report the value is failed validating.
[PR 7067](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7067) (by
[mih](https://github.com/mih))

- Avoid writing to stdout/stderr from within datalad sshrun. This could lead to
broken pipe errors when cloning via SSH and was superfluous to begin with.
Fixes https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/6599 via
https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7072 (by bpoldrack)

- BF: lock across threads check/instantiation of Flyweight instances. Fixes [6598](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/6598) via [PR #7075](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7075) (by [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

Internal

- Do not use `gen4`-metadata methods in `datalad metadata`-command.
[PR 7001](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7001) (by
[christian-monch](https://github.com/christian-monch))

- Revert "Remove chardet version upper limit" (introduced in 0.17.6~11^2) to bring back upper limit <= 5.0.0 on chardet. Otherwise we can get some deprecation warnings from requests [PR 7057](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7057) (by [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

- Ensure that `BatchedCommandError` is raised if the subprocesses of `BatchedCommand` fails or raises a `CommandError`. [PR 7068](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7068) (by [christian-monch](https://github.com/christian-monch))

- RF: remove unused code str-ing PurePath. [PR 7073](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7073) (by
[yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

- Update GitHub Actions action versions.
[PR 7082](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7082) (by
[jwodder](https://github.com/jwodder))

Tests

- Fix broken test helpers for result record testing that would falsely pass.
[PR 7002](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7002) (by [bpoldrack](https://github.com/bpoldrack))

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Bug Fixes

- UX: push - provide specific error with details if push failed due to
permission issue. [PR 7011](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7011)
(by [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

- Fix datalad --help to not have *Global options* empty with python 3.10 and
list options in "options:" section.
[PR 7028](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7028)
(by [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

- Let `create` touch the dataset root, if not saving in parent dataset.
[PR 7036](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7036) (by
[mih](https://github.com/mih))

- Let `get_status_dict()` use exception message if none is passed.
[PR 7037](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7037) (by
[mih](https://github.com/mih))

- Make choices for `status|diff --annex` and `status|diff --untracked` visible.
[PR 7039](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7039) (by
[mih](https://github.com/mih))

- push: Assume 0 bytes pushed if git-annex does not provide bytesize.
[PR 7049](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7049) (by
[yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

Internal

- Use scriv for CHANGELOG generation in release workflow.
[PR 7009](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7009) (by
[jwodder](https://github.com/jwodder))

- Stop using auto.
[PR 7024](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7024)
(by [jwodder](https://github.com/jwodder))

Tests

- Allow for any 2 from first 3 to be consumed in test_gracefull_death.
[PR 7041](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7041) (by
[yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

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🐛 Bug Fix

- BF: blacklist 23.9.0 of keyring as introduces regression [7003](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7003) ([yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
- Make the manpages build reproducible via datalad.source.epoch (to be used in Debian packaging) [6997](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6997) ([lamby](https://github.com/lamby) botdatalad.org [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
- BF: backquote path/drive in Changelog [6997](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6997) ([yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

Authors: 3

- Chris Lamb ([lamby](https://github.com/lamby))
- DataLad Bot (botdatalad.org)
- Yaroslav Halchenko ([yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

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🐛 Bug Fix

- BF: make logic more consistent for files=[] argument (which is False but not None) [6976](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6976) ([yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
- Run pytests in parallel (-n 2) on appveyor [6987](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6987) ([yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
- Add workflow for autogenerating changelog snippets [6981](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6981) ([jwodder](https://github.com/jwodder))
- Provide `/dev/null` (`b:\nul` on 💾 Windows) instead of empty string as a git-repo to avoid reading local repo configuration [6986](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6986) ([yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
- RF: call_from_parser - move code into "else" to simplify reading etc [6982](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6982) ([yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
- BF: if early attempt to parse resulted in error, setup subparsers [6980](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6980) ([yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
- Run pytests in parallel (-n 2) on Travis [6915](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6915) ([yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
- Send one character (no newline) to stdout in protocol test to guarantee a single "message" and thus a single custom value [6978](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6978) ([christian-monch](https://github.com/christian-monch))

🧪 Tests

- TST: test_stalling -- wait x10 not just x5 time [6995](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6995) ([yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

Authors: 3

- Christian Mönch ([christian-monch](https://github.com/christian-monch))
- John T. Wodder II ([jwodder](https://github.com/jwodder))
- Yaroslav Halchenko ([yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))

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