Updating CVS/Entries

[R Bresner]

Howdy --

 

I wrote a simple program which finds

parses local CVS/Entries files and checks

the timestamp of local files to determine if

a file is locally modified.

Simple.

What I notice is that over time I may touch a file

here and there and eventually I may have dozens

of locally modified files which, when an actual

cvs status is done, come back as up-to-date.

Ok? Great.

 

We all know that CVS does a similar timestamp

check before going over the my network, to the repository,

to diff the files. Which, of course, takes time.

Is there a way to update the CVS/Entries file timestamps

to avoid having cvs go to the repository to check for diffs?

cvs update doesn't do it (I thought it would). I guess I

could add the feature to my simple little program, but

I don't want to reinvent the wheel if'n I don't hafta.

 

Cheers

Rob