From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 21 11:01:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA02001 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:01:38 -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 LAA01986 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:01:34 -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 MAA28561; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 12:01:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA14829; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 12:01:21 -0700 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 12:01:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199711211901.MAA14829@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: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version Resolution? In-Reply-To: <199711211822.LAA06216@freebie.dcfinc.com> References: <199711211631.JAA14205@mt.sri.com> <199711211822.LAA06216@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 > >> 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