time and date in CVS...

[Hamid Ghassemi]

How can I make CVS to preserve date and time of a file.  When I add and commit a file to the CVS repository and then remove the file and try to update it, the file I get does not have the original date and time.  The following is an example;

 

# ls -l foo.c

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  swdev     18 Jun  6  2001 foo.c

# cvs add -kk foo.c

cvs server: scheduling file `foo.c' for addition on branch `test'
cvs server: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently
# cvs commit -m "This is a test" foo.c

RCS file: /cvs/cmtest/foo.c,v
done
Checking in foo.c;
/cvs/cmtest/foo.c,v  <--  foo.c
initial revision: 1.1
done
# rm -f foo.c

# cvs update

U foo.c

# ls -l

-rw-r--r--  1 root  swdev     18 Dec  7 10:14 foo.c

 

Notice the date was changed from June to Dec.

 

Is this the correct behavior for CVS?

 

Thanks

 

Hamid Ghassemi

 

Hamid

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