Re: Moving working copy to other machines

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 18:54, Delbert D. Franz wrote:
>
>> This hits a snag. Under Windows, where this work is being
>> done, the copy commands seem to always change the time
>> stamp on the directories when new ones are created.
>> This change causes Subversion to claim that all files have been changed.
>
> You're wrong about this. Changing timestamps on either working files or
> hidden 'text-base' files does *not* make Subversion think they're
> changed. It just makes it take longer for Subversion to figure out
> whether they're changed or not.

If text files with svn:eol-style set to native are checked out on
Linux and then copied to Windows the line endings will be incorrect.
This difference won't show up if the timestamps match, but if the
timestamps differ then the difference will appear when the file
contents are compared.

-- 
Philip Martin
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