Re: last modified date in CVS

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, 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.

Why? I have often missed that information during runtime. Of course, the
most recent checkin is important. And since ChangeLog is changed with
every checkin, the version date of this file could be used. This could be
found out using

grep '/ChangeLog/' CVS/Entries  | sed 's_/ChangeLog/[0-9.]*/\(.*\)//_\1_'

during compiling or by ./configure or ./prepare.

> 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.

Of all alternatives, I would prefer to show the CVS timestamp.

Best regards
Harald

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