Re: Subversion equivalent to VSS diff for binary files

Replying to list.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Phil Pinkerton <pcpinkerton_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks that is exactly what I needed, I just need to figure out how to
> show that if a file was re-compiled but there are no changes that
> Subversion sees the difference as perhaps a time stamp or some compile
> data inside the file that makes it seem as though the file did change
> when actually the code is the same.

I do this all the time. For example, I will store Java JAR files in a
repository and when I build my app even though all of the JAR files
are recompiled unless the code was changed, the compiler produces an
identical file and it does not get committed. I also version SVN
DLL's and when I do a complete rebuild if I am using the same versions
of things like APR and OpenSSL those DLL's do not get committed.
Again, this is even though they were completely rebuilt from scratch.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/