[Unison-hackers] move instead of copy
Trevor Jim
tjim at mac.com
Tue Sep 15 12:51:55 EDT 2015
As I recall, the reason for the copy is that sometimes move is not
atomic.
For example, a move from one hard disk to another is actually a copy and
a delete. The copy could fail in the middle.
It is hard to tell how a move will be implemented from just the path of
source and destination.
Using copy+delete instead of a move is therefore a safer approach, since
Unison knows that copies can fail and takes this into account so that
you do not lose data.
Something to keep in mind...
-Trevor
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