Re: cvs questions

[Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com>]

Uh, forget the first question, the timestamps are in /CVS/Entries. Sorry.
Rod
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Rod Butcher wrote:
> Can somebody give this newbie a few tips on CVS please.
> 1. When I checkout a component, the timestamp on files gets set to my 
> current system time, which is 10 hrs ahead of UTC. Shouldn't the 
> timestamp get set to that of the original creation of the file ? How can 
> CVS decide that my copy of the file is up to date or not as its 
> timestamp won't match that in the CVS repositiory ?
> 2. When I checkout xcb from freedesktop.org, I get a directory 
> /src/extensions. Yet I don't see this directory at 
> cvs.freedesktop.org/xcb/xcb. What's the connection between the 
> repositoery I checkout stuff from and what I see online at cvs.xxxx ?
> Thanks
> Rod