Determining status
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? Chris GE Global Research Center ___ ___ Dr. Christopher R. Volpe, Ph.D. Computer Scientist Visualization and Computer Vision Lab Imaging Technologies Bldg KW, Room C215 P.O. Box 8, Schenectady, NY 12301 (518) 387-7766, Dial Comm: 8*833-7766, Fax: (518) 387-6981 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]web: http://www.crd.ge.com/~volpecr ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Determining status
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Volpe, Christopher R (Research) wrote: 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? Look in CVS/Entries ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Determining status
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
