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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
subject="example of where retries could help"
date="2020-02-05T22:19:26Z"
content="""
As one example, I just had a `git-annex-copy` command fail twice with `git-annex: thread blocked indefinitely in an STM transaction`, then have the same command succeed (or at least get much further -- still running) on the third try. I can write my own wrappers to mask such errors, but a built-in implementation seems generally useful and would know better which failures are likely transient.
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