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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:01:22 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Version Resolution? 
Message-ID:  <199711210101.SAA12324@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711200426.EAA16474@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
References:  <199711200146.SAA08213@mt.sri.com> <199711200426.EAA16474@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>

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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.

*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



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