Whoops, you are indeed correct. I was sloppy with my terminology, my bad. Thanks so much for the reply Stefan, now my mind is set at rest :-) (And the files indeed are zero bytes)
Thanks again!
> On 26/01/2017, at 12:43 am, Stefan Hett <stefan_at_egosoft.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> On 1/25/2017 12:43 AM, SkiAddict11 wrote:
>> I have several SVN repositories on my local hard disk, a Mac running El Capitan 10.11.6. I back up my disk using Time Machine and then use diff in the Terminal to verify the backup.
>>
>> Since I upgraded to SVN 1.7.22 I've noticed that diff tells me none of my repositories' wc.db-journal files are being backed up. I haven't added them to the TM exclusions list, so this surprises me.
>>
>> Should I worry about this? Or is wc.db-journal a file that gets recreated if SVN doesn't find it? Googling doesn't turn up anything useful, nor does searching the list archives here.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
> I'm quite sure you are mixing up the terms repository and working copy, right? If not, please ignore the following.
>
> Just take a look at wc.db-journal. The file size of that file is 0 in all my cases and is a temp file used by SQLite. It would be non-empty for cases where the svn-process would crash I assume. Further details see [1].
> I assume TM only backs up non-empty files, no?
>
> [1] https://www.sqlite.org/tempfiles.html
>
> --
> Regards,
> Stefan Hett
>
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