Hello,
Thank you all for your replies.
Laurent wrote:
I have some dirty admin hacks to do on CVS repository files (*,v). I wonder if there is any risk or incidence to change the file timestamps.
We want to rewrite the revision time information within the *,v files, but not to change the date, only to change the way the date is displayed. This is because the old date format with 2 digits for the year crashes viewCVS, while it is ok if the year is written with 4 digits.
We take the risk to hack the files. The tests we have done so far show it seems to work as expected.
And about this:
That is an exceedingly bad idea. It's not a question of "old" format versus "new" format -- the RCS file format explicitly requires 2 digits for years 1900 through 1999 and all digits for subsequent years (it does not support years prior to 1900).
I agree, but we checked that not 2 digit dates are prior 2000. So it is ok _in our case_.
Thank you again for your help.
-- -- Laurent
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