From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 31 8:12:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26AAE37B400 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:12:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0VGCUo36231; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:12:31 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0VGCUx32235; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:12:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:11:50 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020131.091150.67419427.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 From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <79603.1012479536@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <20020131112850.GB28361@cobweb.example.org> <79603.1012479536@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <79603.1012479536@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sheldon Hearn 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message