Michael Hanke

That is a possible setup that would avoid placeholder proliferation. So they default would be something like `shell-quoted-space-separated-list` (which is what it does not), and there could be any number...

# Factor out a fundational package (FP) The purpose of such a package would be to serve as a foundation to build DataLad-powered libraries and apps -- implemented in Python....

An effort towards a foundational library has started at https://github.com/datalad/datasalad

I am not sure if this is a sensible thing to do. I believe it would turn of any progress reporting also. I am not familiar with what a library...

I think a first line of action should be to stop the further creation of such records. The simplest way to achieve this is a patch of the `_create_record()` helper...

Ping sent to chatroom. Will resolve via force-to-POSIX. This is required for a robust implementation of https://github.com/datalad/datalad-next/issues/143

I thought about that scenario too. I believe that the "correct" solution is to document how a user need to approach this in order to yield portable records. And that...

Nope, this is not windows. This is a general problem, and replicates in exactly the same fashion on Debian. The culprit is this line https://github.com/datalad/datalad/blob/f98924576eec8b2629367e466a624b95524e6b02/datalad/support/gitrepo.py#L3808 It takes the URL from...

MacOS failure looks unrelated (web remote).

I dont know if this is a common case. Typically, access that requires acknowledging a configurable default goes via `obtain()`. Here it is different, because it needs to look for...