Re: trouble with symlinks

[Steve Greenland]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:29:59PM +0100, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> Its not the symlink it self, i store in my repository, its the symlinked
> file.
>
> I have only files in my repository, without any symlinks! But i have
> many symlinks in the directory where i checked out my source tree.
>
> What im interested in having cvs to look at the timestamp of files
> those which my links point to. My problem is that cvs is looking at
> the symlinks timestamp.

I think you're still expressing yourself badly, because if the symlinks
aren't in the repository, then cvs isn't looking at them *at all*. Maybe
you should post a *short* example of the problem you are seeing, with
the actual output of CVS and 'ls -l' of the individual files/links.

Steve