From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 20 16:33:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA24436 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA24429 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:33:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freebie.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.3/8.8.3a) id RAA04371; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:28:52 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199711210028.RAA04371@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Version Resolution? To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:28:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, nate@mt.sri.com, chad@dcfinc.com, rkw@dataplex.net, brian@awfulhak.org, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199711202321.QAA11798@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Nov 20, 97 04:21:17 pm" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > Nate -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com crl22@aol.com DCF, Inc. - 14523 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254