On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 06:57:43PM +0000, Wolfram, Dirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to file a bug in Subversion 1.9.1 and 1.9.0, but I'm not sure if > it's a deliberate behavior. > The problem was not encountered in Subversion 1.7.6, which we used for a long > time. > I didn't find anything concerning this issue in the change log. > > Summary: > -------------- > The "svn switch" command updates a file's timestamp, if the property > svn:keywords is set.
I believe this is a side effect of the fix for issue #1975 "svn switch does not update keywords" http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1975 When svn updates a keyword it has to modify the file content and rewrite the file so the time stamp gets updated. I would argue your expectation that a file's time stamp won't be updated by svn switch is in direct contradiction to your use of svn:keywords on the same file. You can't really have both.
