Re: dates, checksums, and so

On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 14:16, Alan Shutko wrote:
> What version are you using? Checkouts have been setting the
> timestamp appropriately for a while, though I don't know when,
> offhand. I just tried it on my machine....

I'm not sure how Michael Price got his result; in my experience, for a
checkout or update, CVS sets the timestamp to the checkin date for a new
file (which is all of the files in a checkout) or to the current time
for a modified file. This produces no particularly useful guarantees.

(And people do jump on CVS for its timestamp behavior. But solo turn is
confusing the issue by conflating the timestamp a file gets on
checkout/update/switch with the algorithm used to find changed files in
a working directory.)

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Received on Sat May 3 22:09:27 2003