For the record, there is a slight weirdness with how git-annex handles a signal like ctrl-c. For example: joey@gnu:~/tmp/b>git annex copy a b --to origin copy a (checking origin...) (to origin...) SHA256-s104857600--20492a4d0d84f8beb1767f6616229f85d44c2827b64bdbfb260ee12fa1109e0e 3272 0% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 ^C zsh: interrupt git annex copy a --to origin joey@gnu:~/tmp/b> rsync error: unexplained error (code 130) at rsync.c(549) [sender=3.0.9] Here git-annex exits before rsync has fully exited. Not a large problem but sorta weird. The culprit is `CmdLine.startup` in Utility.SafeCommand, which installs a default signal handler for SIGINT, which causes it to immediatly terminate git-annex. rsync, in turn, has its own SIGINT handler, which prints the message, typically later. (Why it prints that message and not its more usual message about having received a signal, I'm not sure?) It's more usual for a `system` like thing to block SIGINT, letting the child catch it and exit, and then detecting the child's exit status and terminating. However, since rsync *is* trapping SIGINT, and exiting nonzero explicitly, git-annex can't tell that rsync failed due to a SIGINT by examining the `waitpid` result. And, git-annex typically doesn't stop when a single child fails. In the example above, it would go on to copy `b` after a ctrl-c! A further complication is that git-annex is itself a child process of git, which does not block SIGINT either. So if git-annex blocks SIGINT, it will be left running in the background after git exits, and continuing with further actions too. (Perhaps its SIGINT handling is a bug in git.) Now, rsync does have a documented exit code it uses after a SIGINT. But other programs git-annex runs generally do not. So it would be possible to special case in support for rsync, blocking SIGINT while running it, noticing it exited with 20, and git-annex then stopping. But this is ugly and failure prone if rsync's code 20 changes. And it only would fix the rsync case, not helping with other commands like wget, unless it assumes they never trap SIGINT on their own. Which is why the current behavior of not blocking SIGINT was chosen, as a less bad alternative. Still, I'd like to find a better one. --[[Joey]]