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

Jerome Vouillon Jerome.Vouillon at pps.jussieu.fr
Wed Jul 29 11:01:42 EDT 2009


On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:27:39AM -1000, Jason Axelson wrote:
> 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?

The exit status is 1: some items were skipped, but no failure occurred.

-- Jerome


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