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On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 01:50 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 07:59:46 +0200 |
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> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> |
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> > I'm against dumb timeouts. Good timeout = die if nothing happens for T. |
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> > Bad timeout = die if process doesn't finish for T (yet it may still be |
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> > doing something). |
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> Could you perhaps adjust it so that when the timeout limit is exceeded, |
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> the sync is aborted, and the sync status of that repository is flagged |
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> as "bad", and notifies you somehow to fix it manually at your leisure, |
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> but otherwise ceases to impede the progress of all the other |
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> repositories? |
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> |
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> And if you're worried that a sync interruption midway could cause a |
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> dirty state, maybe you could do an rsync trick where mercurial repos |
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> are rsynced into a sandbox location, and then only rsynced back into |
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> place on success? |
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> |
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> This process lets you go "sure, it may be doing something, but it took |
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> too long anyway, so we'll let somebody with brains work it out and |
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> pretend it was broken in the interim" |
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No. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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