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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-09-25 15:29:56 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-09-25 15:29:56 -0400
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indirect: Better behavior when a file in direct mode is not owned by the user running the conversion.
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"""]]
Any update on this? Why is `-a` used here? -- [[anarcat]]
+
+> -a is not really the problem. You certianly do usually want
+> to commit your changes before converting to direct mode.
+>
+> [[done]]; now when this happens it catches the exception and
+> leaves the file in direct mode, which is the same as it being
+> unlocked. --[[Joey]]