Help with RCS

[Ben White]

I am having a minor problem using RCS (Revision Control System).  Namely,
whenever someone checks out a file (using the "co" command), this modifies
the RCS file, and this in turn triggers a re-compile for everyone in the
work group who has dependencies to that file in his/her Makefile.

The work-around that we currently use is to look at the date on the RCS
file (using ls -l) before check-out, and then manually reset the date
(using Sys V touch) to this "previous" value after performing the check-out.
This works, but it is tedious and easy to forget.

Is anyone aware of a better solution?

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