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diff --git a/doc/bugs/FAT__58___Date_resolution_for_mtime_2s--__62___implications/comment_3_923fc470727ecf21f0bb368b0486b15d._comment b/doc/bugs/FAT__58___Date_resolution_for_mtime_2s--__62___implications/comment_3_923fc470727ecf21f0bb368b0486b15d._comment deleted file mode 100644 index 599927cd2..000000000 --- a/doc/bugs/FAT__58___Date_resolution_for_mtime_2s--__62___implications/comment_3_923fc470727ecf21f0bb368b0486b15d._comment +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -[[!comment format=mdwn - username="http://joeyh.name/" - ip="108.236.230.124" - subject="comment 3" - date="2014-06-05T17:06:40Z" - content=""" -> if we have an exact time difference of 1s (probably \"inode problem\") or 1h (\"utc problem\") we treat this file as likely unmodified and check this via the normal checksum algorithm. - -That sort of makes sense, but when is git-annex supposed to do that? - -If `git annex add`, it already checksums the file, and already stages no change if the file's checksum is the same. And if the user has told git-annex to add the file and it's changed, the presumption is they know it's changed and want to add the new version. - -> To do an git annex sync or git annex add is in my opinion not a good option, because one could add so Bad file content by accident... - -If not in add or sync, then when? - ----- - -I am actually having a hard time coming up with a scenario where this problem results in any more than extra checksumming work by git-annex. - -The only scenario I see is: The drive is unmounted, gets corrupted, is remounted, and this timestamp nonsense causes git-annex to think a file (that has already gotten corrupted) has in fact changed, so it commits the corrupted version. -"""]] |