Content filtering has landed in bzr.dev

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Fri Mar 20 14:20:22 GMT 2009


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Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> This sounds like a really useful feature! I was reading the help and it said 
> that it uses the modification time of files to detect changes. Would it not also 
> make sense to cache the size of the file too? If the size or modification time 
> changes then the file is considered changed. This would be more robust than 
> just checking the modification time.
> 
> Apologies if that is what you do already...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nick
> 

I'm pretty sure it uses the same fingerprint that we use now. Which is
mtime, ctime, size, ino, dev... (I think almost everything from stat
except for atime.)

John
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