From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Sep 7 1:27:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D7A15D2F for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A581CA9; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:26:29 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Team Subject: Re: $Date$ at www pages In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:31:44 +0400." <19990907003144.A262@scorpion.crimea.ua> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 16:26:29 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990907082629.71A581CA9@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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