Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:08:26 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: chad@dcfinc.com Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Version Resolution? Message-ID: <199711211708.KAA14359@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199711210543.WAA05046@freebie.dcfinc.com> References: <199711210327.NAA00434@word.smith.net.au> <199711210543.WAA05046@freebie.dcfinc.com>
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> > Only you don't want it in newvers.sh; it needs to be generated at > > checkout/update time... > > No, you want it generated at the time of the commit as it uniquely > identifies the state of the repository. Identifying the fetch doesn't > accomplish what we're talking about, which is to be able to say, "I'm > running 2.2.5-STABLE-9711201835 and the screen colors are all wrong." But you can't generate it a commit time since remote CVS users don't do any commits, so they only have a essentially read-only CVS tree as the source of their bits. Nate
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