Re: Unison improper behaviour on metadata change (chmod and chown) with force=newer.

Greg Troxel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.unison.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tõivo Leedjärv <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 at 12:32, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Not completely consistent: I don't think there should be any forcing.
>
> I agree, based on that force=newer/older is not defined for when
> mtimes are equal and there is no clear way to define it either.
>
> I had planned to keep the change as small as possible, but going this
> extra step, making it explicit that it's undefined for equal mtimes,
> is not an issue for me. If there are no objections then I'll go ahead
> with just that.

I see your point about smaller, but I feel like this is a bug fix and we
should fix the bug as fully as is reasonable.

Let's wait a few days to see if there are other opinions.

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