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Re: Forcing complete binary file comparison for checkin

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:27:32 -0800

Andy Levy wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2008 1:49 AM, Sang Go <sanghgo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> SVN does not seem to detect changes in binary files that have changed, but
>> the file date, time, nor size has changed. This occurs when doing lossless
>> rotation of JPEG images where the file date and time are forced to retain
>> the original date and time.
>
> That's correct. SVN uses the date/time of the file as the primary
> indication that the file has changed.

I'm pretty sure that svn 1.5 will also check the file size.

Regards,
Blair

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