document that switching between relative and absolute paths prevents change detection

2026-05-11 21:15:23 +00:00 · 2026-05-10 17:40:55 +02:00
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@@ -315,6 +315,10 @@ Note that the snapshot metadata will always contain the absolute path.
    /user
    /user/work.txt

+.. note:: When switching between absolute and relative paths, the change detection in restic
+    will not be able to detect unmodified files. This is because the change detection depends
+    on the file path inside the snapshot.
+
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