Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:11:50 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: sheldonh@starjuice.net Cc: molter@tin.it, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number Message-ID: <20020131.091150.67419427.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <79603.1012479536@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <20020131112850.GB28361@cobweb.example.org> <79603.1012479536@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> writes:
: Here, we use 4 digits to represent the year, 2 digits to represent the
: month, 2 digits to represent the day and 7 digits to represent the
: commit. This assumes that we would never see more than 999,999 commits
: in a single day. I'm not sure this will happen before the year 10000AD.
: ;-)
Not even __P will cause this :-).
: [1] And anyway, do we really want to clutter the serial file with CVS
: revision Id, which may cause confusion? Certainly, we won't be
: allowing manual commits to this file!
We already have a mechanism for this.
Warner
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