Re: [Gnu-arch-users] inode caching for explicit id's completed

[Aaron Bentley]

Robert Collins wrote:

> The only thing that has me scratching my head is the addition of the
> path field - it's not ideal for a couple of reasons:
> * It means moved files don't match inode sigs, so moving a large file
> will result in it being diffed, even if it hasn't changed.
>  
When making a changeset, can you zap the path data from the sig before 
using it for comparisons?  You should be able to look up files by 
dev+inode anyway.

I think it's rare enough to not be worth it.  Sorta like adding binary 
file detection binary_files_differ().

Aaron