On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 12:34 +0200, Stefan Küng wrote:
> Ed McDonagh wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that sometimes various files are marked as modified (red
> > exclamation mark) when in fact they haven't been. Sometimes it is
>
> Do they also show up as modified in the commit dialog?
Yes
> That depends on the application with which you open the files. Some
> applications modify every file when opening, writing some "last viewed"
> or "last opened" date string to the files.
> If you have such applications: get rid of those. It's a clear indication
> that the developers of those apps don't use version control - and I
> don't think I have to tell you what that means for the quality of those
> apps.
>
The application would be MS Excel, and I shudder to think what systems
the developers use...
I have been looking more closely at the checksums and the
created/modified/accessed timestamps. As far as the timestamps go, there
is no apparent connection between timestamps and whether the file is
considered modified.
For each of the 'modified' files, the MD5sum for the file differed from
the checksum for the version in .svn\text-base\. Reverting the file
returns it to the original checksum as you would expect.
However, whilst opening and then closing without saving an excel
spreadsheet doesn't change the date stamps - even the accessed stamp -
it does change the md5sum of the file.
BUT, this doesn't lead to subversion thinking it has been modified,
despite the difference in checksum. When you open the file, the tick
changes to an exclamation mark, and when you close without saving it
returns to being a green tick!
So now I'm thoroughly confused about how subversion decides a file is
modified or not.
Ed
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