Re: svn status: does not notice changed file if timestamp of "new" file is older

Branko ÄŒibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:

> >I don't think Subversion needs to know the ctime of a working copy
> >file. The mtime is what is needed to track text changes, and property
> >changes are tracked via the the mtime of the property file.
> >
> It's a common misconception that "ctime" means "creation time". It
> doesn't. the ctime is the time of the last _change_ to the _inode_,
> and as such doesn't bear any relation to Windows creation time. So
> yes, it's totally wrong to rely on ctime, we should be looking only at
> mtime.

The author of the code knew that, the svn_io.h documentation states
explictly that svn_io_file_affected_time will return the later of
mtime and ctime to enable permissions to be tracked.

-- 
Philip Martin
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