Volpe, Christopher R writes: > > I've noticed that "cvs status" is able to determine if a file is up to date or >locally modified very > quickly, i.e., in much less time than would be required to extract the file from the >repository and > do a comparison. How is this done? Is there some checksum stored away somewhere that >is used for the > comparison?
Not a checksum, but a timestamp (in CVS/Entries). If the file's current timestamp matches the stored timestamp, it's unmodified. -Larry Jones I've got an idea for a sit-com called "Father Knows Zilch." -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
