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+Bugfix: Read fresh metadata for unmodified files
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+Restic took all metadata for files which were detected as unmodified, not taking into account changed metadata (ownership, mode). This is now corrected.
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+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2249
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2252