RE: How to tell CVS that it should use the proper date/time

[Jim.Hyslop]

address@hidden wrote:
> If you mean you want checkout to record the current timestamp of the
> file rather than the time of the checkin, that would also break things
> like make.
I'm not sure I follow this. How would using the timestamp of the file
instead of the time of checkin break make? Presumably, the file's timestamp
would be older than the time of the checkin, and on a fresh checkout there
won't be any targets (e.g. *.o) at all. Hmmm... well, I guess I'm assuming
that the targets will be created in the same directory as, or a subdirectory
of, the source directory. Is that a poor assumption? Might the targets be in
a directory completely outside of CVS's knowledge?

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Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)