Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Moving hosts: corrupt library (failed inode signature validation)

[Aaron Bentley]

John Meinel wrote:

> But some other things. If you "touch" a file (not in the revlib), it 
> looks newer than the revlib. So tla has to do a diff on it to see if it 
> really is different. 

tla has several tricks for avoiding doing diffs.  If two files have the 
same device and inode, they're the same because they're really one 
hard-linked file.  If a file's size and mtime are the same as in its 
inode sig, it's considered unchanged.

> (Until a commit type deal where the revlib finally 
> gets updated).

Library revisions are never updated.  They're only added or removed.

When you commit a tree, new inode sigs are calculated for that revision.

Aaron