Re: last modified date in CVS

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

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> Harald Harders wrote:
> > grep '/ChangeLog/' CVS/Entries  | sed 's_/ChangeLog/[0-9.]*/\(.*\)//_\1_'
> >
> > during compiling or by ./configure or ./prepare.
>
> Please keep in mind that not all developers are on Unix ...

Oh yes, I sometimes forget this. How do these people work?

> If we want to put a 'last checkin' timestamp into the banner page of
> builds from CVS, the server is the place to implement such a scheme.
> The server would basically modify 'version.h' automatically, every
> single time anybody checks in anything.  The date string could either be
> taken from the RCS $Id, or generated by a script on the server.

This sounds good. The big advantage of being able to find out of which
date a CVS version is, is comparability.

Best regards
Harald

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