Re: cvs update (cvs status shows CVS/Entries cached date/time)

[Todd Denniston]

Jayashree wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> $cvs status a.c
> File: a.c        Status: Locally Modified
>    Working revision:    1.40    Mon Sep  2 20:46:00 2002
>    Repository revision: 1.40    /home/cvs/a.c,v
> 
> What does the time stamp " Mon Sep  2 20:46:00 2002" mean?
> Is that the checkout/update time or checkin time of the file?
> 
> Regards
> Jayashree

cvs status a.c
ls -l a.c
#note timezone to GMT effect
sleep 60;touch a.c
cvs status a.c
ls -l a.c
#note no change from above
cp a.c a.c.bak
sleep 60;cp a.c.bak a.c;date
grep a\.c CVS/Entries
cvs status a.c;date
grep a\.c CVS/Entries
cvs status a.c;date
ls -l a.c
#note timezone to GMT effect
#A1: last time the local file was noted by cvs to have been written. 
#A2: last time the local file was written. 
#where written can be by cvs [checkout|update], save from your editor, cp.....
cvs version
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server)

CVS Gurus
Is this supposed to report the cached value, instead of the filesystem value
which it caches during the command???? (kind of surprised me) 
Unfortunately http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_17.html#SEC155 and
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_10.html#SEC84 have the only detailed
Cederqvist info I could find on cvs status and neither documents the time field
for the Working revision.
So do we have an annoyance level buglet?

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