Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, David Brown wrote:

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 06:31:24PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

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