Re: last modified date in CVS

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
>> It would be nice if that could be updated via a CVS checkin script or 
>> something.  (Not sure if CVS has that capability.)
> 
> 
> I'm quite sure that CVS has that capability, but less than convinced 
> that it would be a good idea to use it.
> 
> A better alternative would be not to display the 'last modified' line at 
> all, in non-release versions.  Mechanisms for doing that already exist 
> to switch between the -beta and the user mailing list addresses.
> 
> Or we could exchange the 'last modified' time by a build time, for CVS 
> builds.

Either of those would be better than a misleading 'last modified' date.

Dan