[Unison-hackers] identical conflict resolution

[Dale R. Worley]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 13:38 -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> It looks like that a situation can arise where a file is created on BOTH
> ends of a synchronized pair between syncs which Unison could handle
> better. In the case of the files containomg the exact same data (same
> hash), they should simply be updated to the latest mod time.

(Assuming that "times = true" is set.)  That is not true.  If both files
were created, but their mod times are different, then the files are
different -- their contents are the same but their properties are
different, and Unison cannot itself determine what their properties
ought to be.

Dale