On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Terry Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Not needed, since the collisions are practically impossible. >> > Distributed version control systems are built on this assumption. >> >> I didn't know that! > > Some systems prepend YYYYMMDDHHSS for extra robustness... Yeah, but leo probably shouldn't do that (a 'touch'ed file is still the same file, even if it has a new timestamp). If we want to optimize even more at some point, we could generate the hash from just abspath, timestamp and size (the stat() info) - it will cover the most typical cases. However, let's see how full-body hashing performs first... -- Ville M. Vainio http://tinyurl.com/vainio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
