Timothy Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
But this wouldn't give you errors, right? It would just result in a
full file comparison. Er...maybe that's what you meant...
> 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
Using md5 will only be around 2x faster than doing --ignore-times,
though the disk cache could alter that factor in either direction.
The real advantage of using a checksum as an ID is when you have to
store/transmit it. Since Darcs already stores a full copy of each
file in the pristine, this advantage doesn't exist. Then again,
maybe the 2x (?) speedup is worth it.
- Kannan
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