On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 03:12:34PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:46:03 +0200 Marc Haber wrote:
> > The flag should not be touched if there was an error so that one can
> > immediately retry the operation.
> 
> There doesn't appear to be any way to fix this, because the skip
> command that runs hours_since which touches the flag file runs before
> the update commands.

Check hours_since
Do command, bail out if unsuccessful
update flag file

> You can immediately retry the operation using the force option, which
> will ignore the skip command where the hours_since flag was run.
> 
>    $ mr --force update

I know, but that's not pretty.

Greetings
Marc

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