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How does RTC determine that a file has been modified?

I tried touching a file, but this is not enough to get RTC to see a file as modified. (I know that if you change the file outside Eclipse you have to do a refresh in Eclipse before RTC sees a change.)

Is it actually checking that there is a diff? And what about binary files?

-David

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To avoid bogus check-ins with automated tools that "touch" or "rewrite"
files, we use timestamp/hash to detect changes instead of simply the
timestamp. We don't diff with the remote though, just keep the hash of
the previous contents.
Cheers,
Jean-Michel

On 8/11/2009 4:08 AM, David.Sedlock.infineon.com wrote:
I tried touching a file, but this is not enough to get RTC to see a
file as modified. (I know that if you change the file outside Eclipse
you have to do a refresh in Eclipse before RTC sees a change.)

Is it actually checking that there is a diff? And what about binary
files?

-David

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