Does file version number matters when patching?

[andreszabelwesky]

I noticed that I am able to recompile my project files without changing their file version number and the patch will still replace my old files with the new ones.

Based on this behavior, it looks like the patch does not use the file version number to decide weather to replace a file or not, instead it looks like if it was comparing the files (binary comparison) and if it finds they are different it will replace them.

Is this the way this works?

Thanks

[andreszabelwesky]

bump

[MichaelNesmith]

Yes, that sounds pretty accurate.