Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla undo feature request

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>
    > Ben Burns wrote:

    > > It makes
    > > sense to me to add the file mode to the inode sigs...  after doing
    > > this, and rebuilding my revision libraries, I haven't seen any files
    > > in the revision library with the wrong file permission go unnoticed by
    > > tla.

    > Great.  We've been meaning to add that support to inode-sigs, just that 
    > no one's written the code yet.  Feel like getting Tom's requirements and 
    > submitting a patch?

It's fairly trivial.

The big thing is that when comparing signatures for equality you have
to be prepared for one of them to have mode info and the other not to.
In that case, you have to compare them while ignoring the mode info.

Should be, like, an O(10) line patch

-t