On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 17:55 +0000, Kannan Goundan wrote: > Timothy Webster <timw <at> outblaze.com> writes: > > > Thx, --ignore-times works, > > but I think using md5 is more general and efficient solution. > > Sorry I don't croak heskell > > Using md5 would be much less prone to errors, but less efficient than checking > timestamps. Doing a full file comparison would be error-proof, but would be > even less efficient.
Yes, using timestamps checks gives a quick dirty check. but if you are like me I tend to touch a lot of files I and leave them unchanged. What I would like to see is --use-md5 and I can choose to make it default in my repos md5 is not as "safe" as sha1, but good enough and fast _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
