On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:03 AM, David Weintraub <qazw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What Subversion does is look at the timestamp of the file and the > contents of the .svn directory that contains the file information. If > the timestamp has been touched, it is compared against the base to see > if there was an actual change. If you modify a file's property, it > changes an internal file in the .svn directory and Subversion picks up > that timestamp change. > Just a point of clarification. Subversion looks at two things to determine if a file has changed. 1. The timestamp 2. The size If the file size has changed, then SVN considers the file modified. If the file timestamp has changed, then SVN does a byte for byte comparison with the pristine version of the file to determine if it has changed. A good way to make SVN really slow is to run touch on your entire working copy. That forces SVN to have to do a compare on every single file to see if it has been modifed. svn cleanup will repair the internal timestamps. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
