From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 20 17:01:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA26766 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA26758 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:01:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA22286; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:01:25 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA12324; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:01:22 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:01:22 -0700 Message-Id: <199711210101.SAA12324@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brian Somers Cc: Nate Williams , Annelise Anderson , Richard Wackerbarth , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version Resolution? In-Reply-To: <199711200426.EAA16474@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <199711200146.SAA08213@mt.sri.com> <199711200426.EAA16474@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > The only way to get a reasonably useful date here would be to have an > > > automatic cvs posting on freefall every day to (say) sys/codedate.h: > > > > Yep, you've got it. However, this fails for people who get stuff via > > CVSup, which gets files directly out of the repository, and this file > > doesn't live in the Repository. > > But it would live in the repository. We create an original, then put > a cron job on freefall that does the "cvs co"/"cvs commit". The > ``codedate'' is actually part of the code. *ARGH* Does no-one listen? If we keep 'updating' a file in the CVS repository (be it every commit, or once/day, or whatever), then that file will grow w/out bounds, and eventually kill the jkh-AI program when it fills the disk, and our favorite entity will cease to exist. Nate