On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 12:47:57PM +0100, Johan Holmberg wrote: > Is Subversion really sensitive to such timestamp differences?
Yes, it is. To avoid checking the entire content of all files in the working copy every time you run 'svn diff' or 'svn status', Subversion keeps a record of the timestamp each file had after checkout. If that timestamp differs from the one on disk, the file is considered modified.
