Re: vc-revert-buffer restores modification time from CVS

[Kevin Rodgers]

Steve Pitchers wrote:
> With Emacs 21, the behaviour of vc-revert-buffer has changed, such that  
> the original modification time of the revision from CVS is restored.  
> This  is very clever, but "make" now does not know that the file has 
> changed and  the build process fails or creates an executable that does 
> not represent  the source shown in the Emacs buffer!
>
> What can be done to correct this?  Emacs 20 did not have this problem.

(defadvice vc-revert-buffer (after touch activate)
  "Reset the visited file's modification time to the current time."
  (shell-command (format "touch %s" buffer-file-name)))

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Kevin Rodgers