git-annex/doc/bugs/tmp_file_handling.mdwn
Joey Hess e6da7eb177 Improved temp file handling
* Improved temp file handling. Transfers of content can now be resumed
  from temp files later; the resume does not have to be the immediate
  next git-annex run.
* unused: Include partially transferred content in the list.
2011-01-28 14:10:50 -04:00

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git-annex deletes all tmp files on shutdown, if everything succeeded.
This presents 2 problems:
1. If git-annex is rsyncing something and another one is run, it will
delete the running instance's tmp files.
2. If a long-running rsync transfer is interrupted partway through, the
tmp file was expensive to obtain, and one needs to avoid running
git-annex to do anything else until that transfer can be resumed and
finished.
--[[Joey]]
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