Re: [Duplicity-talk] How about adding option --omit-dir-times?

[edgar . soldin]

On 04.08.2013 13:04, Danil Semelenov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to suggest to add and option --omit-dir-times to duplicity similar 
> to analogous option in rsync. Here's the excerpt from rsync man:
> 
>       -O, --omit-dir-times
>                This tells rsync to omit directories when it is preserving 
> modification times (see --times).
> 
> The directories times often change on creating/moving/deleting files in them 
> (especially in home dirs). But personally I rarely wish to store this 
> information in backup archives.
> 
> 

1. the changed mtime for dir entries takes virtually no space in the backup
2. as it reflects only the latest modified file, it'd also would not speed up 
duplicity significantly
3. that said, if you need it _and_ implement it properly and provide a patch, 
why not

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