[bug #29507] cvs update -j update timestamp of unchanged files

[Olexiy Buyanskyy]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?29507>

                 Summary: cvs update -j update timestamp of unchanged files
                 Project: Concurrent Versions System
            Submitted by: olexiyb
            Submitted on: Fri 09 Apr 2010 10:30:59 PM GMT
                Category: Bug Report
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 
         Discussion Lock: Any
           Fixed Release: None
   Fixed Feature Release: None

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Details:

Hi,

Issue is really critical for our company. 
We have 20000 C/C++ source files and have several central common libraries.
Every patch goes on separate release branch that eventually is merging to HEAD
(production) code. During merge we use
cvs -q upd -kk -j tag_HEAD_start_point -j br_REL_BRANCH folder_name

During merge cvs apply properly patches to some files changed on release
branch, but it also change timestamp of other files.

We use GNU make to compile our code and make uses timestamp. Because cvs
changed timestamp of all files this really triggers make to recompile sources
those were not really changed.
So question why CVS change timestamp of all files. 

Can this be fixed or new option introduced for merge process?

--
Olexiy




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