Re: Automated report: NetBSD-current/i386 build failure

[David Holland <dholland-current%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 10:32:37AM +0200, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
 > >  > it looks like CVS randomly didn't commit some of my changes,
 > >  > investigating...
 > > 
 > > Yeah, not sure what happened; something caused it to, apparently,
 > > think a few of the files in the second changeset still had the
 > > original checkout timestamps. This makes it completely blind to any
 > > changes in them (even if you run cvs diff explicitly) until you touch
 > > the files.
 >
 > [...]
 > 
 > Why would other version systems not suffer from this same issue
 > when the date stamps are somehow wrong?

Because they're more careful.

e.g.:

   % touch -r file ref
   % echo 'more' >> file
   % touch -r ref file
   % hg status
   M file
   ? ref
   % 

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost