Re: [reSIProcate] Makefile woes
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:42 -0800, Fischl jason wrote:
> I'm not sure why this is happening since the MethodHash.cxx file was
> checked in after MethodHash.gperf. When svn retrieves the files the
> timestamp on the .cxx file should be later than the .gperf file so
> gperf should not be run. What seems to happen is that the timestamp on
> the files are made to be the current time rather than the timestamp
> when the file was checked in.
Subversion does not preserve timestamps. The timestamp of the file is
the time it was checked out, not the time it was checked in. This is a
fairly frequent topic of discussion on the subversion mailing lists, and
the developers make (I think) a very good case for why this is correct.
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Scott Lawrence
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