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Re: Determining status


From: Kaz Kylheku
Subject: Re: Determining status
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:30:24 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Volpe, Christopher R (Research) wrote:

> I've noticed that "cvs status" is able to determine if a file is up to date 
> or locally modified very
> quickly, i.e., in much less time than would be required to extract the file 
> from the repository and
> do a comparison. How is this done? Is there some checksum stored away 
> somewhere that is used for the
> comparison? 

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