On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Andy Goth <andrew.m.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/29/2014 11:04 AM, Stephan Beal wrote:
> > In such a case Fossil would record both commits but store the
> > file's contents in a single artifact (because it recognizes them by
> > SHA1 hash, and the hash would be the same). i.e. it would not
> > duplicate the content, only the record of the change.
>
> The neat thing about this situation is that when you look at the
> artifact info page, it will show the artifact as being part of multiple
> commits, including those tagged with different branches.  This way you
> can track down all the times when you had a given version.  I'm also
> reasonably sure it'll also work for the case of multiple filenames
> mapping to the same contents.


Does Fossil hash only the file content or does it include meta data, such
as the file name, in the hash, as well?
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