[Unison-hackers] [unison-users] Unison aborts all the synchronization after a permission issue

Jason Axelson bostonvaulter at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 17:27:39 EDT 2009


On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Benjamin Pierce<bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>> --?-> and the orange arrow both seem a little too subtle -- I don't
>>> think most people will notice.
>>
>> Indeed, this is a little subtle.  But is that so important?  The next
>> time the user will run Unison, he will get explicit errors, as the
>> directory structure will have been transferred.
>>
>> What may happen is that the user wrongly believes that the replicas
>> are fully synchronizated after transport.  Maybe we should make it
>> more visible when this is not the case.  For instance, we could pop a
>> summary window in the GTK UI.
>
> This is a good idea.  For the text UI, I guess the summary message at
> the end of the sync is enough.

Will the exit status be non-zero also?

Jason


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