Re: Committing files with only mofification data changed?

On Dec 22, 2009, at 04:56, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

> We are using subversion to manage our autotools based SW and we have some dependency problems.
> When we modify some autotools file like configure.ac and regenerate configure
> and friends some files are rewritten such as aclocal.m4 but there is no change
> in the file contents. When committing, these files are left uncommitted
> since there are no change but modification date.
> When someone checks out/updates his repo, autotools thinks aclocal.m4 needs to be
> regenerated due to the modification date id old.
> Is there a way to commit such files modification date wise?

Subversion does not store modification dates. If a file's contents or properties have not changed, to Subversion there is nothing to commit. To force a commit, you could consider making a no-op change to the file's contents, or setting or deleting some irrelevant property on the file.
Received on 2009-12-23 07:59:15 CET