threerings/flump — comment on commit 1ea16800f3e3a53ca221e145de80132cf0d85e33
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By aduros:

I don't really see the ability to open up files on production and tracking versions like that to be very useful. And if someone needed to do that, comparing a single MD5 should be easier should be easier than going through multiple files. A single MD5 just seems simpler and less error-prone for what it's made for, letting the export tool detect updates.

The tool would have to read the whole tree at start-up, but then again we're basically stuck doing that either way. I wonder if we can get away with just using file modification times to make that faster on huge projects?