Option to skip files whose content hasn't changed

Registered by Elifarley Cruz

It would be nice to have an option to skip files which had their modification time changed without any changes to their content.

In some situations, it's not really important to track changes to mtimes, so why keep recording them?

The algorithm could be something like:

- if mtime hasn't changed, skip
- compare the current file checksum against its last recorded checksum. Skip if they are the same.

There's no need to have a history of checksums for each file, since only the last checksum would be necessary.

This will also help with bug 768481 (Don't write new incremental set if nothing changed).

Would it be easy to implement? Which source files would I probably need to change?

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Needs approval
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Obsolete
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Completed by
Kenneth Loafman

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