RE: Question - commiting modified file

[Bishop, Murray]

Anjali Madhekar wrote Thursday, January 10, 2002 6:00 AM:

> When I generate some files during the build, they appear as 'modified'
> in CVS. when I do a 'diff' the exit status is '0' indicating that the
> files are indentical.
> 1. Do they have 'modified' status due to the file creation time stamp?
> 
yes.

> 2. Out of 20-30 files that are generated, some may actually be
> different. So how do I checkin only those that changed? 
> 
Just use an ordinary checkin.
'cvs ci' won't checking a file unless its content has
changed. change of timestamp is used as a hint to decide which
file contents to compare.

> 3. After doing a 'commit' on a file that appears modified but is
> identical, CVS does not check in that file. But the file continues to
> appear as 'modified'. How can I get it to show the status as current?
> 
'cvs status' will do that.

You might be better off not keeping files generated by
the build in CVS. 
Instead simply keep the source files for your build. 

Cheers,
Murray (What follows will have been inserted by others)


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