Uniquely identifying each & every html template

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 21 January 2013 12:06, Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Τη Δευτέρα, 21 Ιανουαρίου 2013 11:31:24 π.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Chris Angelico έγραψε:
>>
>> Seriously, you're asking for something that's beyond the power of
>> humans or computers. You want to identify that something's the same
>> file, without tracking the change or having any identifiable tag.
>>
>> That's a fundamentally impossible task.
>
> No, it is difficult but not impossible.
> It just cannot be done by tagging the file by:
>
> 1. filename
> 2. filepath
> 3. hash (math algorithm producing a string based on the file's contents)
>
> We need another way to identify the file WITHOUT using the above attributes.

This is a very old problem (still unsolved I believe):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus


Oscar