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Re: Bug? Binary files marked as modified when not touched!

From: Dave Lawrence <dlawrence_at_ad-holdings.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:14:19 +0100

Ed McDonagh wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 12:18 +0100, Dave Lawrence wrote:
>> Stefan Küng wrote:
>>> Ed McDonagh wrote:
>>> 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.
>> We had an IDE that did that and I managed to work around it by using an
>> svn:needs-lock property to make the files read only.
>
> Most of our files are not set to 'needs-lock', but some are, such as the
> excel templates. However even these are affected by this issue, so that
> isn't the solution for me. They are not however set to 'read only' in
> addition, so maybe this is why it worked for you?

Yes it was the "read only" aspect that "fixed" it. Prior to SVN 1.4
"read only" status in the w/c was preserved through update (even if the
file changed), after that read only status was associated with needs-lock.

Anyway it just so happened to be a good workaround for that particular
app so I thought I'd suggest it. Doesn't mean it works in the general
case though.

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