[cvsnt] checkout & timestamp

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:26:32 +0200, "Rebhan, Gilbert"
<Gilbert.Rebhan at huk-coburg.de> wrote:

>when checking out files from my cvs- repository, the files in
>the workspace the original timestamp different always get's
>altered to the actual date/time.
>
>Is there any chance to keep the original timestamp when
>checking out files from cvs ?
>
>Any hints / ideas ?

If you check out a module to an empty directory then you will get the
timestamps of the originally committed module. All updates of a file
after this will alwasy timestamp it to now(), because otherwise the
make utilities typically used with a development system cannot see
that the file has changed and may not recompile that file. Thus the
changes introduced in it are not part of your test compilation. By
forcing the date to now the file will get compiled and the program
runs correctly.


/Bo Berglund