Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 20:52:28 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, bde@zeta.org.au Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bogus release version string Message-ID: <199506201052.UAA06090@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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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
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