Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff creating a patch file, when there are no changes to the file

[Martin Pool]

On 26 Mar 2004, Fran Firman <address@hidden> wrote:

> use offset 7, length 3 = offset 1 and offset 7
> use offset 3, length 3 = offset 3

Right, I was summarizing.  The actual output will be 

  COPY 0 8
  END

but there are some cases where it will give slightly too many copy
commands.

> I found all this out, when I started using the file-statics files, to
> tell me what had changed for an ids system, but I kept getting messages
> that files had changed, when they hadn't. And it was always the same
> files too.

What has changed?  Just the atime?  The source file should not be
rewritten at all.

-- 
Martin

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