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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:45:00 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, David Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 06:31:24PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > Why does "rename(old, new)" change st_ctime when you move a regular 
> >file?
> 
> But, from the point of view of backup software, not updating the ctime 
> on rename would be horrible, because you'd never know when files got 
> renamed.

Any backup software that does not discover that there is a new _filename_ 
is not worth the label "software".  Rather "daftware" or somesuch.

Ciao,
Dscho