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-rw-r--r--doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol.mdwn4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex-shell.mdwn b/doc/git-annex-shell.mdwn
index cf72e091b..fc536e44b 100644
--- a/doc/git-annex-shell.mdwn
+++ b/doc/git-annex-shell.mdwn
@@ -90,12 +90,15 @@ first "/~/" or "/~user/" is expanded to the specified home directory.
Sets up a repository as a gcrypt repository.
-* p2pstdio directory
+* p2pstdio directory uuid
This causes git-annex-shell to communicate using the git-annex p2p
protocol over stdio. When supported by git-annex-shell, this allows
multiple actions to be run over a single connection, improving speed.
+ The uuid is the one belonging to the repository that will be
+ communicating with git-annex-shell.
+
# OPTIONS
Most options are the same as in git-annex. The ones specific
diff --git a/doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol.mdwn b/doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol.mdwn
index ff4b8c59d..a592e17a9 100644
--- a/doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/accellerate_ssh_remotes_with_git-annex-shell_mass_protocol.mdwn
@@ -40,3 +40,7 @@ Implementation todos:
git-annex-shell recvkey has a speed optimisation, when it's told the file
being sent is locked, it can avoid an expensive verification.
* Maybe similar for transfers in the other direction?
+* What happens when the assistant is running and some connections are open
+ and it moves between networks?
+* If it's unable to ssh to a host to run p2pstdio, it will fall back to the
+ old method. What if the host is down, does this double the timeout?