Re: automating cvs checkout/checkin and also don't checkin identical files

[Eric Siegerman]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 09:20:45PM -0700, Chad Woolley wrote:
> I am looking for a way to automate a CVS checkout/checkin process.

You'll have to explain a bit more what you mean, I think.

> Also, on the 
> checkin, I don't want to check in any files that have identical contents to 
> the 
> repository version - even if they have been saved with a new timestamp.

This is how CVS already works.

If you're working client/server, CVS will tell you in its
log-message-editor comments that the file is "modified", but it
won't actually check in a new revision.  That little mislead
happens because at the time CVS collects the log message, it
knows which files have different timestamps, but doesn't yet know
which subset of them also have different content.  (It can't diff
the files until it's sent the sandbox copy to the server (duh),
and it can't do that until it has the log message, because it
needs to send all data necessary for the commit to the server in
one go, without any pauses for user interaction.)

When operating locally, on the other hand, it can figure that out
*before* collecting log messages, so it can display an accurate
file list.

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