Re: svn status does not detect a modification if the same file was touched

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

In this scenario, svn status does not show anything. Also, the file does
not get commited when I issue an 'svn commit'. Is there a reason for that?

Thank you,
Sasikala

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger_at_gmx.de>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> On 10/19/2017 11:41 AM, Sasikala Kottegoda wrote:
> > A file named a.txt exists inside a folder in the working copy, which
> > has been copied from somewhere else
> >
> > * cCopy and replace a.txt with the same file/or modify it by issuing
> > the 'touch' command
> > * Do an svn status, it shows nothing
> > * Do an svn info on the file and 'Last Changed Date' shows the same
> > as the previous file. It does not get modified even though the
> > file was newly copied.
> > * But the from java files API, the file is shown with a different
> > modified date
> >
> > Why do we not modify the 'Last Changed Date' when the file was newly
> > copied/touched?
>
> Last Changed Date refers to the last change of the version item in the
> repository that the working copy knows about. It does not relate or
> account for local file system changes, neither in identity (inode),
> timestamps (touch) nor content - because this is a local change that
> does not change the versioned item until commit.
>
> Andreas
>

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