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 `safeSystemEnv` 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. 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. (Probably this is a bug in git.) 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]]