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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, bde@zeta.org.au
Subject: Re: bogus release version string
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> *     Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950603 i386
> * 
> * 1. This provides very little information about the version - it might be
> *    for plain 2.0 built late or for 2.2 built early.

>I agree.  Is there some way to let cvs generate an $Id$-like string
>that has the checkout time, not the checkin time?  Then we can put it
>in one of the header files and pull it into the kernel, and this will
>give us a reasonable approximation assuming the whole source is
>checked out at once (certainly true for sup from freefall or ctm).

	`cvs co ...; date >some-header.h' :-)

I'd prefer for `cvs commit' to print the date step commit the changed
header (not recursively, and without doubly the number of commits).

Bruce