From: Ilya_Shlyakhter <Ilya_Shlyakhter@web>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:43:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: added suggestion to record ETags in URL- keys
X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/10.20250416-2+rpi1~1^2~72^2~31^2
X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1155bbb3db62e4903015efb30b04ca57616aa1ed;p=git-annex.git

added suggestion to record ETags in URL- keys
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+Many websites return an Etag in the http response header, indicating the version of the resource.  Could the etag (or a checksum of it) be recorded in the URL- key, the way size is now?  Then e.g. `fsck --from web` could do a stronger check that the same file is still downloadable from the web, and the situation where different remotes have different versions of a file with the same URL- key could be better prevented.