On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 08:22 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> does anyone actually find this useful ?  

yes quite useful.

> i think ive used the value in there 
> like once (when in reality a `md5sum` would have worked just as well) ... 
> otherwise, from my perspective:
>  - it causes annoying bogus hunks in diffs

That it does also if the diff is of course in the first few lines.

>  - not uncommon for people to contact me as the maintainer because i'm in that
>  - wastes space (well, probably not a strong argument due to bytes vs blocks)
>  - for mostly green users, it's confusing and they get it wrong
> -mike

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