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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:41:17 -0600
From: Robert Miles <robertmiles@bellsouth.net>
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Subject: Re: rebase keeps last modification time of DLL unchanged
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On 3/9/2012 1:47 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar  9 19:22, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:43:07AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Mar  8 21:37, Christian Franke wrote:
> I'm not so sure this option would make a lot of sense.  An option not
> used by rebaseall by default won't be used anyway.  We should decide
> which behaviour makes more sense and then just do it.
>
> Actually, the aforementioned backup scenario implies to me that setting
> the timestamp makes more sense.  Restoring a broken Cygwin installation
> from a backup and then immediately getting rebase problems again, just
> because an incremental backup didn't catch the rebased DLLs sounds pretty
> frustrating.  OTOH, who's doing incremental backup these days?
>
> Corinna
>
I am.  I don't feel like buying a new hard drive or a new disk server 
every month
or so in order to preserve all my backups as long as I often need them - 
some
problems simply aren't obvious for a few months.

Robert Miles

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