[issue367] 'nothing changed' even after touching a file

[John D. Mitchell]

On 9/9/06, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But that "metadata" is part of the information of the file (just like
> > permissions).
>
> Of the short lit of SCM's I have worked with, none of them treat
> filetime change as 'modified'. It's something perhaps only 'make'
> would care about. Any reasons you think otherwise?

Yes, many things suck but that's not an excuse. :-)  In particular,
almost all of them completely suck at dealing with file permissions.

Metadata about the files is, IMHO, part of the key information about
the file and should be versioned just like the contents.

Take care,
John