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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_178__bus_hacking.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_178__bus_hacking.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..738afd2c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_178__bus_hacking.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Hacking on a bus to Canberra for [LCA2013](https://lca2013.linux.org.au/), +I made the webapp's UI for pausing syncing to a repository also work for +the local repository. This pauses the watcher thread. (There's also an +annex.autocommit config setting for this.) + +Ironically, this didn't turn out to the use the thread manager I built +yesterday. I am not sure that a ThreadKilled exception would never be +masked in the watcher thread. (There is some overly broad exception +handling in git-annex that dates to back before I quite understood haskell +exceptions.) |