[cvsnt] Re: uptodate checks failed

teknokrat teknokrat at yahoo.com
Wed May 25 10:28:04 BST 2005


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Tony Hoyle wrote:
> teknokrat wrote:
> 
>> Every now again someone tries to commit files into cvs and gets an 
>> uptodate check failed message. This is using eclipse. Usually, 
>> selecting clean timestamps cures the problem. But why is it happening? 
>> Is this a cvsnt or an eclipse issue. Is it a problem with peoples 
>> clocks? What effect does clean timestamps have on version control?
> 
> 
> It's not down to timestamps, but versions.  It means someone else has 
> committed a version of a file and your copy is out of date.
> 
> It's always good practice to do an update before a commit (I tend to do 
> update/compile/commit).
> 
> Tony

Hang on, but this has happened when there are no diffreneces between the 
files and the versions locally and remotely are identical. Also, why 
should clean timestamps have any effect?



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