On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 03:43:53PM +1100, Jason White wrote: ... > Yes, of course it's possible to change the date stamp of files and avoid the > detection of modifications, when date stamps are relied on. However, it's > obviously more efficient to check date stamps than to compute hashes of file > contents, users generally don't change the former, and a version control > system isn't a security tool designed to resist unexpected user behaviour. As > I remember, cvs and svn both use date stamps. It's interesting that Git has > opted for a different trade-off in this case, a reasonable decision to make, > arguably, but one which has its efficiency costs.
Don't forget, git is distributed. Neither cvs nor svn is by nature. Karl _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
