On 2009-07-06 20:29, Adrian Levi wrote:
2009/7/7 Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com>:On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a complete directory tree?This is what I was thinking, If you don't want to retain the tar file then pipe it to sha1sum.
I was thinking about that, but tar stores metadata that I know are different between the two trees, thus invalidating that idea.
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