From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:45:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807291243260.4631@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <20080729014120.GA26807@old.davidb.org>

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