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+trsync
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+
+rsync wrapper that implements transactional synchronization with remote location
+
+Please feel here a long description which must be at least 3 lines wrapped on
+80 cols, so that distribution package maintainers can use it in their packages.
+Note that this is a hard requirement.
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+* Free software: Apache license
+* Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/trsync
+* Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/trsync
+* Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/trsync
+
+Features
+--------
+
+* TODO
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