Jayashree wrote: > > Hi, > > $cvs status a.c > File: a.c Status: Locally Modified > Working revision: 1.40 Mon Sep 2 20:46:00 2002 > Repository revision: 1.40 /home/cvs/a.c,v > > What does the time stamp " Mon Sep 2 20:46:00 2002" mean? > Is that the checkout/update time or checkin time of the file? > > Regards > Jayashree
cvs status a.c ls -l a.c #note timezone to GMT effect sleep 60;touch a.c cvs status a.c ls -l a.c #note no change from above cp a.c a.c.bak sleep 60;cp a.c.bak a.c;date grep a\.c CVS/Entries cvs status a.c;date grep a\.c CVS/Entries cvs status a.c;date ls -l a.c #note timezone to GMT effect #A1: last time the local file was noted by cvs to have been written. #A2: last time the local file was written. #where written can be by cvs [checkout|update], save from your editor, cp..... cvs version Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server) CVS Gurus Is this supposed to report the cached value, instead of the filesystem value which it caches during the command???? (kind of surprised me) Unfortunately http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_17.html#SEC155 and http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_10.html#SEC84 have the only detailed Cederqvist info I could find on cvs status and neither documents the time field for the Working revision. So do we have an annoyance level buglet? -- ______________________________________________________________________________ I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you. -- Vance Petree, Virginia Power _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs