Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 12:01:21 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: chad@dcfinc.com Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version Resolution? Message-ID: <199711211901.MAA14829@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199711211822.LAA06216@freebie.dcfinc.com> References: <199711211631.JAA14205@mt.sri.com> <199711211822.LAA06216@freebie.dcfinc.com>
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> >> The ID is kept in a source module (most seem to be voting for > >> newvers.sh). CVS changes that module during a commit, but doesn't RCS > >> the change (to avoid the file growing without bounds--history of all > >> these timestamps is meaningless). Any change to newvers.sh other than > >> the timestamp would still be RCSd. > > > > How does it get stored in my version of newvers.sh up here in Montana > > since I never modified it, or do any commits? > > > > When I do a 'cvs update' of my sources, newvers.sh won't get updated > > since there haven't been any RCS modifications to it. > > > > Remember, I get the actual sources bits via CVS. > > We said that there would be some hacks to CVS. One of them is to always > treat newvers.sh (or whatever source contains the counter) as modified. Having special files that live in the middle of non-special files is a bad design that cannot be maintained easily. Otherwise known as a hack and a kludge. Hacks and kludges are not acceptable when other solutions are available/doable that aren't hacks and kludges, and I *KNOW* that other solutions exist that aren't hacks/kludges. Nate
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