handling fingerprints
Jef Driesen
jef at libdivecomputer.org
Mon Oct 25 10:42:33 PDT 2021
On 25/10/2021 19:25, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 10:13 AM Jef Driesen <jef at libdivecomputer.org> wrote:
>>
>> What's the reason for ignoring the fingerprint if you don't have the
>> corresponding dive anymore?
>
> Simple: you successfully downloaded all the dives, but had some
> problems, and never saved them.
>
> Maybe just a "oops, screwed up editing" and exit without saving. Or
> maybe a crash, whatever.
>
> So then you restart subsurface, and need to re-download. If you don't
> actually _have_ the dive the fingerprint points to, then you should
> re-download it, and not ignore it "becasue I already downloaded it".
That makes sense, but it's also a case that would disappear if the fingerprint
is saved together with the dives.
Jef
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