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diff --git a/doc/bugs/tmp_file_handling.mdwn b/doc/bugs/tmp_file_handling.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3c6c2a597 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/tmp_file_handling.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +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]] |