fROm Sean Cavanaugh (on Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:31:51PM -0700):
> I'd like to see both here, if the timestamps are exactly the same assume
> its the same,
Ehm,
that's not always true (as I've found out the hardway)
touch-ing and retouching (touch woth a datestamp) does happen in makefiles,
and hile The GooD Thing(tm) would probably be to fix the makefiles to
nolonger rely on (re)touching it would be much more convenient to have cvs
not rely on the timestamps but on Something Else(tm).
Also there is the problem of doing
cp -p to copy a file from somewhere else back into the working copy
Whether the Something Else is a CRC check or an MD5 sum.
Given the size of our code base I'd prefer a CRC over an MD5
(at 1 second per file overhead, an md5 would cost over an hour extra)
> otherwise take the time to open the local file and run it
> through MD5 and compare it to the checksum in the local CVS/Entries to make
> sure. We might need an option to force one of three possible modes
> (timestamp only, MD5 only, and hybrid)
timestamp only, MD5 only, crc-only, MD5iftimestampdiffers,
crciftimestampdiffers ?
How does that sound ?
Kind regards,
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