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

[Ted Stern]

On 8 May 2003, Larry Jones wrote:
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>> I need to get some files from my CVS repository and I also need the
>> date/time stamp for those files to be the same as in the repository. Is
>> that possible?
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> Yes, do a fresh checkout into a new directory instead of updating an
> existing directory.
>

I have a question related to this:

On several systems I work on, we have work partitions that are periodically
pruned of files that haven't been accessed in the last week or two.

When I do a fresh cvs checkout, my files have both access and mod time set to
the filestamp in the repository.  Unfortunately, if the pruning job spots
those before I've had a chance to 'touch -a' them, they get removed.

Is it possible to tell cvs checkout/update to preserve the mod time of the
repository file but update the access time?

[Reading and posting via Gmane]

Ted
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