From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:11:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86vbn3nbmf.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tx4caaxj.fsf@slice.rozzin.com
>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin@geekspace.com> writes:
Joshua> (and even regular files actually may have their ctime updated,
Joshua> for reasons that I can't seem to find a way of fitting into
Joshua> the VC analogy)
ctime is the measure for "should this file be backed up again". If a
file is moved to a different place, or given a different name, it *must*
be backed up on an incremental backup, or else the data would be missing
(or in the wrong place) if all the incrementals are restored.
That was the original purpose, and still useful.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-28 21:11 UTC|newest]
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2014-09-12 4:36 Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 9:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 10:49 ` Gregor Zattler
2014-09-12 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 13:19 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 13:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 15:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 17:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 15:53 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 19:28 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 13:57 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 11:38 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 16:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 11:46 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-12 13:56 ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-12 15:08 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-09-12 16:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 6:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-12 7:25 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 9:34 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-12 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 8:34 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 8:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 11:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 11:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 12:17 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 13:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 15:54 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 16:04 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 16:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 16:28 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 16:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 20:19 ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps (was: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult) Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-09-12 20:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 21:44 ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-09-13 3:45 ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps (was: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult) Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-13 5:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-13 6:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-13 7:26 ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-13 10:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-13 12:43 ` Yuri Khan
2014-09-14 7:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 10:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-14 11:03 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-14 13:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 14:06 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-14 15:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 14:21 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-14 15:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 15:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-14 17:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-15 0:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-13 8:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 14:12 ` Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult Sam Steingold
2014-09-12 14:36 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 14:44 ` Yuri Khan
2014-09-12 15:24 ` Sam Steingold
2014-09-12 15:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 16:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-12 20:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-12 15:21 ` Sam Steingold
2014-09-12 15:34 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-12 15:51 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 17:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-12 17:58 ` David Caldwell
2014-09-12 19:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-12 18:01 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-12 19:36 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-10-28 21:11 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2014-09-12 15:30 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-12 15:57 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 17:10 ` Stefan Monnier
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