[issue42958] filecmp.cmp(shallow=True) isn't actually shallow when only mtime differs

[Andrei Kulakov]

Andrei Kulakov <andrei.avk at gmail.com> added the comment:

But rsync is a quite more specific tool. For example, unix cmp command does not guess based on any part of `stat` sig. That's a much closer command in scope to 'filecmp'.

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