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Re: Strange diffs after rsync copying of working copy

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:28:11 +0100

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 12:47:57PM +0100, Johan Holmberg wrote:
> Is Subversion really sensitive to such timestamp differences?

Yes, it is. To avoid checking the entire content of all files in the
working copy every time you run 'svn diff' or 'svn status', Subversion
keeps a record of the timestamp each file had after checkout. If that
timestamp differs from the one on disk, the file is considered modified.
Received on 2012-02-03 13:28:54 CET

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