Re: Strange diffs after rsync copying of working copy

On 02/03/2012 02:09 PM, Philip Martin wrote:
> Johan Holmberg<holmberg_at_iar.se> writes:
>
>> So I don't think saying "If that timestamp differs from the one on
>> disk, the file is considered modified." is correct. "svn" does not
>> work like that for me at least.
> You are correct, that is not how Subversion behaves. Subversion checks
> the timestamp to determine whether to do a full text comparison. If the
> timestamp and size of a working file match the recorded values the file
> is assummed to be unmodified. If the values differ Subversion does a
> full text comparison to determine if the files differ.
>

I have now done some further experiments. I just issued commands like this:

     $ svn status # no modified files reported
     $ touch foo.txt bar.txt
     $ svn status
     M foo.txt <------ only "foo.txt" not "bar.txt"
     $

So for my "problematic" files (like "foo.txt" in my example), svn
actually is sensitive to a change in timestamp. But my project consists
of 21000 files, and only 19 of these are "problematic". I have still no
clue why just these 19 files behave like that.

I can repeat the commands above several times, and it consistently flags
*one* of the two files as modified. Always the same file.

/Johan Holmberg
Received on 2012-02-03 14:32:00 CET