Re: Checking vc-state recursively under a directory

[Colin S. Miller]

Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
> Since you don't have a revision to compare against that function would
> not be idempotent, and if you called "cvs update" manually in-between,
> it wouldn't catch the change, either.  That's different from what
> `vc-state' does, which compares the working copy against the
> checkout-out revision (like "svn status"), but doesn't check if the
> repository has something newer.
In this case, the OP would want to use (nth (file-attributes filename) 5)
for all files in the directory of interest.
This gives the mtime of the file as a list, in the same format as (current-time)
except that (current-time) gives usec as well.


> regards,
> Nikolaj Schumacher


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