Re: Files with different creation dates marked as new.

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 05:53:24PM +1000, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> I have a genealogy program of some 16-18 MB.  Updates are coming out about 
> monthly.  I get it working on my own computer, then send it to the remote 
> server with sitecopy.
> 
> Although only a few files (approx under 50) are changed with each upgrade, 
> sitecopy wants to send the whole directory tree again (1359 items this time.)  
> I assume that it is looking at file creation times, which change when I move 
> the files into place.  The original download always has original creation 
> times of the files.  Can I get around this with md5 checksumming, perhaps, or 
> in some other way?
> 
> (I have just realized that if I extract the new archive into position in my 
> www directory, there should be no problem.  But is there an answer, just the 
> same, for this time?)

If you use the "state checksum" rcfile entry, then sitecopy will only
consider the files as "changed" if the content changes, yes.  You can
also use the "checkmoved" option and it will spot files which have been
moved between directories.

Regards,

joe
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