Brian wrote: > Steve Kemp wrote: > > It's a shorthand way of saying "modified" - which would clearly > > change the hash. > > > > "I didn't touch the cake", is like "I didn't eat the cake" :) > > Thanks. That was one interpretation I thought of. So it's nothing to do > with touch(1)? Changing a file's timestamp wouldn't alter the hash.
Correct. As Steve said, it is a common speech idiom for "modified". In the way it was used it had nothing to do with the 'touch' command. Bob
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