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

John D. Mitchell jdmitchell at gmail.com
Sun Sep 10 23:41:08 UTC 2006


On 9/9/06, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Metadata about the files is, IMHO, part of the key information about
> > the file and should be versioned just like the contents.
>
> Key as it is, I'll be very upset if my SCM insists the file has been
> modified because I somehow change its  mtime.

Can you explain why?  If the modified time is, ahem, modified then
that's signaling that something changed.

Thanks,
John



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