Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 03:01, James Blackwell wrote:
> Why not add a =meta-info/last_changed file to archives? The purpose of
> this file is to hold the date that the archive was last modified.
> Archive-mirror could check this file for changes before it goes through
> the effort to find what has changed. 

My first concern would be race conditions. All writers would need to
update the same file. Secondly, if you have different security on
different branches, you'd need to allow everyone with any write access
to alter meta-data, which is IMO not desirable.

Rob
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