Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 16:26:29 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net> Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Team <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: $Date$ at www pages Message-ID: <19990907082629.71A581CA9@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:31:44 %2B0400." <19990907003144.A262@scorpion.crimea.ua>
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Alexey Zelkin wrote: > hi, > > As for me $Date$ tag on web pages was very useful, but with $Date$,$Id$-> > $FreeBSD$ change it lost real meaning (just to show last modification time). > I sure that it would be better to insert $FreeBSD$ somethere in body > of the page (as comment) and revert current $FreeBSD$ tags back to $Date$. $Date$ won't be expanded though (and hasn't been for a while).. Is it possible to post-process the generated .html or something and do something like s/\$FreeBSD: .* .* (.* .*) .* .* \$/Last modified: \1 UTC/ ? So then: $FreeBSD: CVSROOT/modules,v 1.360 1999/09/07 06:05:16 taoka Exp $ would become: Last modified: 1999/09/07 06:05:16 UTC If the web build scripts can do this without too much trouble then that should solve the problem fairly well and give an even better result than: $Date: 1999/09/07 06:05:16 $ Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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