Hi Alan!

Our build is taking ages (almost a three hours on the fastest of our servers) and it would be really painful if everybody needed to rebuild everything for himself in the morning.

Aren't you distributing your source code with some tool that preserves
the creation dates of source files? I think all of svn, rsync, tar, or
even cp -a do this.
Yes, we do use cvs and copy build trees with rsync -a/cp -a.

The problem is that because our builds take that long, nobody does a global cvs update very often, but rather only on the parts he is working on.

It's user nightly that does an automated fresh checkout every night and sees if everything is fitting together and passes the tests. That makes it more attractive to copy the nightly build to continue your own work, because there is some guarantee that it builds, passes the tests and incorporated the stuff from the other teams.

Cheers,
  Benjamin
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