OBones wrote:
I must be missing something obvious but I can't think of anything
short of doing a fresh checkout of the working copy.
Well, browsing through history, I found out that the svn:special
property with value * was added to the file at the same time that its
content changed from 20M to 79K which appear to be the exact beginning
of the original file.
I'm not sure how this happened but reverting those changes made the
"sticky modified status" go away.
Thanks for all of you that provided suggestions.