title: What, on the earth, is Property Modified?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicates:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/783275/tortoise-svn-always-merging-45-extra-files">tortoise svn always merging 45 extra files</a><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/391864/svn-mergeinfo-properties-on-paths-other-than-the-working-copy-root">SVN Mergeinfo properties on paths other than the Working Copy root</a>  </p>
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  <p><strong>Background:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I created a branch from <strong>trunk</strong> called <strong>release-v1.0</strong>. Then I continued work on trunk. After I updated and committed one file in trunk and I did a merge for that change only from trunk to release-v1.0 branch using Tortoise SVN.</p>
  
  <p>I was expecting the Commit window only contained one file. But there were 28 files and folders modified. 27 out of 28 were property Modified. 1 out 28 was the file I expected with Text Modified. The files and folders with Property Modified seemed had no relationship to my file at all.</p>
  
  <p>Why did Tortoise SVN touch so many folders and files which were not related to my file? This is really distractive. </p>
  
  <p>My collegue told me that he was using Beyond Compare directly, because he couldn't understand Tortoise SVN. I am not sure that's the best way either. </p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>
  <strong>Question:</strong>
  Is there a way to stop Property Modified from happening?</p>