From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 20 16:37:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA24695 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:37:54 -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 QAA24676 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:37:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freebie.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.3/8.8.3a) id RAA04407; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:35:23 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199711210035.RAA04407@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Version Resolution? To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:35:22 -0700 (MST) Cc: chad@dcfinc.com, nate@mt.sri.com, rkw@dataplex.net, brian@awfulhak.org, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199711210029.RAA12133@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Nov 20, 97 05:29:43 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 >> > So, how do you do it? >> >> It would have to be a custom hack to CVS, letting it generate newvers.sh >> on the fly at each commit. Then "simple timestamps" =would= work. > > That's what Richard's changes were doing. They also dealt with the > issue of the files growing w/out bounds, and multiple branches, but they > *didn't* deal with new branches appearing, which was the only sticking > point I had with his solution. But there are (can be) seperate copies of newvers.sh in each branch? Seems it would be an administrative procedure to touch it correctly as part of creating a new branch. How often does that happen? Couple of times a year? > It's not as simple as it first appears to do right. If it were, they wouldn't pay us the big bucks. :-) > 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