From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 21 09:33:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA24350 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:33:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA24343 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA27808; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:08:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA14359; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:08:26 -0700 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:08:26 -0700 Message-Id: <199711211708.KAA14359@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: chad@dcfinc.com Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Version Resolution? In-Reply-To: <199711210543.WAA05046@freebie.dcfinc.com> References: <199711210327.NAA00434@word.smith.net.au> <199711210543.WAA05046@freebie.dcfinc.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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