Re: CVS update, set date on local harddrive to same as the repository time stamp

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

On Thu, 8 May 2003 15:15:30 +0200
"Erik Andersson" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I hope I'm not spamming to much...
> 
> We have built an update function which uses time stamp and filesize
> for comparing i new files are needed to be downloaded from our server.
> We want to build the release from CVS and therefor we need the date
> for each file to be the same as the previous release if it hasn't been
> modified. I know there are products nowaday which do that, but when we
> started the project there was no such functionality... We are using
> new products for this now, but for a period we also need the old way
> to work. 

If it is only for that: "cvs update" doesn't change the timestamp of
files that haven't changed, so your old method should continue to work
as well.

Franky