[Gnu-arch-users] What is the use of {arch}/,,inode-sigs

[Stefan Monnier]

I guess the subject says it all.
When are they built and what are they used for?

I thought they were similar to the CVS/Entries file: used to figure out
which files have been changed without doing actual file-compares with the
pristine copies (or at least avoid a large number of such compares).
But the files there seem to all be "out of date" (e.g. there's data for rev
9 and 13, but I'm currently at rev 14).


        Stefan