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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: RCS
Message-ID: <6389@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 23:26:00 GMT
References: <5372@lynx.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <5372@lynx.UUCP> m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) writes:
[about timestaps of files checked out with RCS]:
>Perhaps there's a good reason
>that the file time should be the time of check-out...

...As opposed to the revision time.

Yes, there is.  Suppose you check out all files and compile.  Now you
change your mind and check out an earlier revision of one of the source
files and type "make" again.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
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