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RE: How to tell CVS that it should use the proper date/time
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Jim.Hyslop |
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RE: How to tell CVS that it should use the proper date/time |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:12:28 -0400 |
address@hidden wrote:
> >I'm not sure I follow this. How would using the timestamp of the file
> >instead of the time of checkin break make?
> The problem is that the CVS doesn't guarantee that the files
> are copied
> into the workspace in the same order in which they were
> checked in. So
> for derived files like y.tab.c and y.tab.h that might be checked in
> (these might be bad examples, but you know what I mean),
> unpleasant things
> can happen if their timestamps come out in the wrong order.
I think I was unclear - I meant the timestamp that the file had before it
was checked in, not the timestamp of the file when it was checked out. I
*think* that's what the OP was looking for.
In other words, if I last modified the file on June 30, and checked it in on
July 1, currently when you check out the file, CVS will set its timestamp to
the check-in time of July 1. If, instead, CVS set its time to the last
modified time of June 30, how would that break make?
--
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)
RE: How to tell CVS that it should use the proper date/time, Jim.Hyslop, 2004/07/12