On Dec 22, 2009, at 04:56, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > We are using subversion to manage our autotools based SW and we have some > dependency problems. > When we modify some autotools file like configure.ac and regenerate configure > and friends some files are rewritten such as aclocal.m4 but there is no change > in the file contents. When committing, these files are left uncommitted > since there are no change but modification date. > When someone checks out/updates his repo, autotools thinks aclocal.m4 needs > to be > regenerated due to the modification date id old. > Is there a way to commit such files modification date wise?
Subversion does not store modification dates. If a file's contents or properties have not changed, to Subversion there is nothing to commit. To force a commit, you could consider making a no-op change to the file's contents, or setting or deleting some irrelevant property on the file.
