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This makes `metastore` more useful in scripts, just to check if it found
anything, in the same way as `diff` and `grep`.
Note that POSIX requires that EXIT_SUCCESS is 0, and EXIT_FAILURE is 1,
so I've defined EXIT_DIFFERENCES as 2 which, while different from the
values `diff` and `grep` use (1 for finding something, 2 for errors),
maintains a certain amount of backwards compatibility with previous
versions of metastore.
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If you're storing metadata in a version control system with multiple
branches, mtime differences are going to produce a whole bunch of
conflicts that you likely don't care about. This allows you to not
save mtime and avoid those.
Note that we use a sentinel value of -1 for the mentry `mtimensec` field
to indicate this in the data, as all values of `mtime` are theoretically
valid, but `mtimensec` must always be between 0 and 999,999,999 in the
real world.
I'm not 100% sure about the mechanism for selecting this feature. The
legacy behaviour for metastore was to save mtimes in the metadata files,
but ignore them for compare/apply by default, with a `--mtime` option to
use the mtime data.
Keeping the legacy behaviour for backwards compatibility, but adding a
`--no-mtime` option to ignore mtimes when saving felt like a reasonable
way of making this happen, but something about it doesn't feel great.
Maybe I just didn't figure out how to make the documentation clear
enough. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Support building with no extended attributes support when NO_XATTR
macro is predefined to non-0 value (e.g. put -DNO_XATTR in CFLAGS).
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The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) is a good initiative, it has
matured over time and deserves accelerated adoption in open-source.
https://spdx.org/learn
https://spdx.org/using-spdx
https://spdx.org/license-list
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Reformat second paragraph for better look. It had awkward line wrap.
Modernize third paragraph. No need to send letters to FSF in Boston.
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Fixes #36.
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As a bonus you can build out-of-tree now via make -f.
It's part of the work related to issue #22.
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