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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:28:43 -0500
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
Subject: Re: CVS question: Export option to preserve dates?
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At 01:15 PM 12/4/00 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 >On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
 >> I do not see an option for the "export" command that preserves the
 >> "current" date for each source file exported.
 >
 >I don't see such an option euther.  However, AFAIK, CVS doesn't have
 >the notion of a ``current'' date for each file.

??? How does one run a local test make when the "original" dates are 
not available?

 >> It's awfully tough to try to produce local diffs when every file in
 >> the exported set is dated the day that the export is done.
 >
 >??? Why does this complicate diff'ing?  Can't you simply diff two
 >directory trees, recursively?
 >
 >Are you saying that you have difficulties finding the files that you
 >changed?

I found out what my trouble was -- I had to add the -w option to diff 
to ignore CR's at EOL.  The CVS files seem to all have CRLF-delimited 
lines, while the djlsr203.zip has (mostly) LF-delimited lines.  Perhaps 
the cvs that I'm using (the one from the cvs site for windows) is 
producing this?  Is there a way to tell cvs *not* to use CRLF, but just 
LF?  Or are the files stored in the repository that way?

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