From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 4 21:58:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA21712 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 21:58:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21702 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 21:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id VAA18371 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 21:53:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.7.5/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA07769 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 21:51:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199609050351.VAA07769@rover.village.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: CTM # -> date Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 21:51:39 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a silly question... Is there any way to map a CTM # to a date that I can use with cvs's date specification commands? This assumes that CTM is delivering a CVS tree that can be checked out like this. Actually, it would merely use CTM's deltas as marks in time, anybody with a CVS tree could use that numbering. Even just a file that looked like 2400|96/09/04 18:45:32 2401|96/09/04 21:47:19 If that was in the CVS tree (say like the log files of the commits are now), then a simple awk command + cvs co would allow the CVS crowd to get known versions of the source. This would be a convenient fallback for when my makeworld of 2401 fails, I can blow away my source tree and try again with 2400. This wouldn't help the poor slobs getting things w/o the CVS tree. Nor would it solve the "Does this build" problem. However, it would be a tiny, incremental improvement over the current state of afairs. I think it would be easy to implement, but I'm heading off to New Mexico Friday for my Wedding and won't be back for about two weeks. Comments? Warner