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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 1997 04:26:32 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Version Resolution? 
Message-ID:  <199711200426.EAA16474@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:46:12 MST." <199711200146.SAA08213@mt.sri.com> 

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> > 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.

> 
> Nate

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
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