[Gnu-arch-users] Re: bitkeeper vs tla

[Miles Bader]

Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
>> I do sort of wish that arch had a "don't diff unless the timestamp has 
>> been altered".
>
> Inode signatures provide that.  Files that match their signatures 
> (including mtime, inode, size) aren't diffed.

Main problem seems to be that inode-signature support is currently a bit
spotty (e.g., updates don't update them, last time I check, explicit id
checks don't take advantage of them, etc).

-miles
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