Comment 5 for bug 916560

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SegundoBob (bhossley) wrote : Re: [Bug 916560] [NEW] Under Linux created a branch on an ntfs partition all work files have current date time

On 01/17/2012 02:13 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
> OK, thanks for that. I'm a bit surprised it's reporting the files are
> different just because their mtime has changed, because normally that
> is not something bzr thinks is significant.
>
> Are you sure it's not actually something about the x bit?
>

Looks like you are correct. I overlooked the x bit. Execution bit?

From a unidiff by "bzr explorer" of my ntfs resident repository:

=== modified file .bzrignore (properties changed: -x to +x)
--- .bzrignore 2011-11-08 17:10:29 +0000
+++ .bzrignore 2012-01-14 19:09:49 +0000

=== modified file INSTALL.TXT (properties changed: -x to +x)
--- INSTALL.TXT 2011-06-21 10:08:06 +0000
+++ INSTALL.TXT 2012-01-14 19:09:49 +0000

=== modified file LICENSE.TXT (properties changed: -x to +x)
--- LICENSE.TXT 2011-06-03 16:40:19 +0000
+++ LICENSE.TXT 2012-01-14 19:09:49 +0000

=== modified file Makefile (properties changed: -x to +x)
--- Makefile 2010-07-15 19:27:26 +0000
+++ Makefile 2012-01-14 19:09:49 +0000

... Same for all the more than 1,000 files in the repository.
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