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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2018-09-25T17:05:13Z"
+ content="""
+You neglected to show the actual error message from git-annex or rsync or
+whatever actually failed. I can't do anything with this.
+
+annex.retry affects all transfers, not only http.
+"""]]