From 00b527fb093426ca9636932690cd188824728248 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Courtney Bane Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 20:54:15 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update changelog text, and add pull request link. --- changelog/unreleased/issue-2179 | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/issue-2179 b/changelog/unreleased/issue-2179 index c0a275b04..e87778d17 100644 --- a/changelog/unreleased/issue-2179 +++ b/changelog/unreleased/issue-2179 @@ -1,8 +1,15 @@ -Bugfix: Use ctime when checking for file changes +Enhancement: Use ctime when checking for file changes Previously, restic only checked a file's mtime (along with other non-timestamp -data) to decide if a file has changed. This could cause it to not notice changes -if something edits a file and then resets the timestamp. Restic now also checks -the ctime, so any modification to a file should be noticed. +metadata) to decide if a file has changed. This could cause restic to not notice +that a file has changed (and therefore continue to store the old version, as +opposed to the modified version) if something edits the file and then resets the +timestamp. Restic now also checks the ctime of files, so any modifications to a +file should be noticed, and the modified file will be backed up. The ctime check +will be disabled if the --ignore-inode flag was given. + +If this change causes problems for you, please open an issue, and we can look in +to adding a seperate flag to disable just the ctime check. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2179 +https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2212