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* enable forwardRetry for command-line transfersGravatar Joey Hess2016-10-26
If a transfer fails for some reason, but some data managed to be sent, the transfer will be retried. (The assistant already did this.) Possible impacts: * More ssh prompts if ssh needs to prompt for a password to connect to a host, or is prompting about some other problem like a ssh key mismatch. * More data transfer due to retrying, epecially when a remote does not support resuming a transfer. In the worst case, a lot of data will be transferred but it fails before the end, and then all that data gets transferred again plus one byte more; repeat until it manages to get the whole file.