From c3b7d7b60cc3fe597e0f338572a0458922e1aca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:50:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] consider an empty file as different to a non-existing file,
 fixes #3688

---
 src/borg/archiver.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/borg/archiver.py b/src/borg/archiver.py
index 7a5cedb20..1435dd827 100644
--- a/src/borg/archiver.py
+++ b/src/borg/archiver.py
@@ -1030,6 +1030,10 @@ class Archiver:
                 return 'changed link'
 
         def contents_changed(item1, item2):
+            if item1.get('deleted') != item2.get('deleted'):
+                # a deleleted/non-existing file is considered different to an existing file,
+                # even if the latter is empty.
+                return True
             if can_compare_chunk_ids:
                 return item1.chunks != item2.chunks
             else: