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Not actually sure... I'm the admin, one of the users who stores non-source type files in cvs has requested this. I guess I could tell him just to do checkout every time? keith d. zimmerman, mcsd eagle solutions -----Original Message----- From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb at ukf.net] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 9:46 AM To: Keith D. Zimmerman; cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Update and file dates Keith D. Zimmerman wrote: > When checking out from the repository, the file dates/times match the > latest modified date/time in the repository. When doing cvs update, > however, the file date/time matches the time when the update command was > run. Is there a way to make update work the same as checkout in regards > to dates? The reason for the behaviour you mention above is to ensure 'make' can correctly determine to remake files dependent on those that got "cvs update"-ed. AFAIK, there is no way to make update behave like checkout in this respect. Why do you want it to? Max.