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Re: Don't complain about changed file when it hasn't changed


From: Clément Pit--Claudel
Subject: Re: Don't complain about changed file when it hasn't changed
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:57:00 -0400
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On 2016-08-29 13:42, Davis Herring wrote:
>> Same concern here, for remote files. For large remote files I would
>> prefer a cksum call, if possible. But maybe we shall profile this, first.
> 
> A very basic "checksum" would be to just use the file's size.  We could 
> easily implement that and catch most modifications without any real I/O.

Does this work? Many changes don't affect file size, we we would still want to 
prompt the user, right?

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