From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 20 16:32:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA24362 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:32:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA24357 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:32:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA22111; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:32:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA12161; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:32:20 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:32:20 -0700 Message-Id: <199711210032.RAA12161@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: chad@dcfinc.com Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), rkw@dataplex.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version Resolution? In-Reply-To: <199711210028.RAA04371@freebie.dcfinc.com> References: <199711202321.QAA11798@mt.sri.com> <199711210028.RAA04371@freebie.dcfinc.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > It has to be done by CVS; each commit increments a counter. This means > > > that simultaneous commits become impossible, as the object containing > > > the counter has to be locked as part of the commit. > > > > This file then increases w/out bounds, which is unacceptable. > > No, think a bit larger. Make newvers.sh have a keyword (like %%date%%) > that a sed script could use to replace the "counter" as a part of a > commit. Only do the RCS/CVS drill on newvers.sh if something =other > than= the date string changes. And where does this counter number come from? We're back at the same place we started. Nate