On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:22:47 +0100 "G.T.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I theory good, in practice not.. well look at editor example originally > quoted ... modification time does not always mean content has changed it > merely means the modification time stamp has changed... it would be nice > that everyone handled this time stamping issue in a well defined > manner... in practice many people don't, this is not criticism this is > just an observation BTW We go back into the history, this was intended. The Unix/Linux touch command was used to change the time, specifically for use by the make(1) command. Most source control systems can handle this feature reasonably well. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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