Whoops, you are indeed correct. I was sloppy with my terminology, my bad. Thanks so much for the reply Stefan, now my mind is set at rest :-) (And the files indeed are zero bytes)
Thanks again! > On 26/01/2017, at 12:43 am, Stefan Hett <ste...@egosoft.com> wrote: > > Hi, > On 1/25/2017 12:43 AM, SkiAddict11 wrote: >> I have several SVN repositories on my local hard disk, a Mac running El >> Capitan 10.11.6. I back up my disk using Time Machine and then use diff in >> the Terminal to verify the backup. >> >> Since I upgraded to SVN 1.7.22 I've noticed that diff tells me none of my >> repositories' wc.db-journal files are being backed up. I haven't added them >> to the TM exclusions list, so this surprises me. >> >> Should I worry about this? Or is wc.db-journal a file that gets recreated >> if SVN doesn't find it? Googling doesn't turn up anything useful, nor does >> searching the list archives here. >> >> TIA >> >> > I'm quite sure you are mixing up the terms repository and working copy, > right? If not, please ignore the following. > > Just take a look at wc.db-journal. The file size of that file is 0 in all my > cases and is a temp file used by SQLite. It would be non-empty for cases > where the svn-process would crash I assume. Further details see [1]. > I assume TM only backs up non-empty files, no? > > [1] https://www.sqlite.org/tempfiles.html > > -- > Regards, > Stefan Hett >
