Check in dates getting changed after Check out in CVS Server

[mswathi]

Iam using the default CVS available in Fedora 9. I initiated the CVS server by
cvs -d /usr/local/cvsproj init
To check-in and check-out the following exports commands are used
export CVS_RSH=ssh
export CVSROOT=:ext:swathi@SERVER:/usr/local/cvsproj

I shall explain problem by taking an example.
A project was checked in long before (for example the checkin date is 25 Feb 2010). And today (i.e. 21 June 2011) I checked out the project from the repository.
After checkout, the date of the project in the repository is changed from 25 Feb 2010 to 21 June 2011. This date is set to all the subfolders in that project. But the files in the project retains the checkin date i.e. 25 Feb 2010.

Please let me know why the check-in dates are getting updated/changed to the system time after doing check-out.

Thanks in advance.

[David Becker]

CVS tracks file changes and saves these accordingly. Directories are of less concern since CVS is not going to compare directories that are checked out with the same directory in the repository.

David

[mswathi]

Yes I do agree that CVS compares files rather than directories. But the case is that why CVS is changing the date of the repository when the project been checked out.

Please throw light on this.