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Bug#520893: should not treat new directory atomically, or allow resuming



Package: unison
Version: 2.27.57-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

I just had unison run for almost two days transferring a 3 Gb
directory to a remote machine. Accidentally, I made a small
modification to a local file in there. Upon encounter of the file,
unison said

  Failed [foo/the_new_dir]: The file /bar/foo/the_new_dir/a_file has
  been modified during synchronization.  Transfer aborted.

and discarded the entire directory on the remote side. It would have
been nice if it had given me the option to resume, or asked me what
to do with the modified file, rather than just wipe all the work of
the last two days.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages unison depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

Versions of packages unison recommends:
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]   1:5.1p1-5  secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh

unison suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


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