one byte change to file not detected ?

Michael Smith michael.smith at thalesatm.com
Wed Feb 20 16:52:22 CST 2008


BuraphaLinux Server wrote:
> Clearly mercurial cares more about speed than safety.
> 
> Yeah, I can patch it but then I have to rehack it every time they
> release since clearly this is some dumb policy decision to make their
> stuff benchmark better at the cost of safety.
> 
> If any of the developers is reading this, please consider a switch
> like --paranoid for people like me that choose to be safe and are
> willing to go slowly.  No amount of sorry is every going to make up
> for data loss....

Perhaps something like  --checksum in rsync.
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