Finally wrapped up progress bars; upload progress is now reported in all situations. After all that, I was pleased to find a use for the progress info, beyond displaying it to the user. Now the assistant uses it to decide whether it makes sense to immediately retry a failed transfer. This should make it work nicely, or at least better, with flaky network or drives. The webapp crashed on startup when there was no `~/.gitconfig`. Guess all of us who have tried it so far are actual git users, but I'm glad I caught this before releasing the beta. Jimmy Tang kindly took on making a OS X .app directory for git-annex. So it now has an icon that will launch the webapp. [[!img /assistant/osx-app.png]] I'm getting lots of contributors to git-annex all of a sudden. I've had 3 patches this weekend, and 2 of them have been to Haskell code. Justin Azoff is working on [[todo/incremental_fsck]], and Robie Basak has [gotten Amazon Glacier working](https://github.com/basak/glacier-cli) using the hook special remote. Started doing some design for [[transfer_control]]. I will start work on this after releasing the first beta.