Re: Automatically keeping "last modified" up to date

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 06, 2013 12:26:04 pm Allin Cottrell wrote:
>> There's one other fishy thing in that neighborhood. When I do
>> a cvs update it seems I quite often get the cvs 'M' flag
>> indicating that src/version.c is modified, when I certainly
>> haven't edited that file.
>> Allin Cottrell
>
> Exactly.  That's as expected.
> When you run "make" it changes gnuplot_date[] in version.c file to reflect
> the most recently modified date.  So if you later update from CVS it sees
> that your local copy of version.c is different from the base copy in CVS.

OK, I see. And I don't think this is a big deal. But isn't it 
sort of a principle of version control to operate a strict 
separation between files that are supplied from the repository 
(and hence are, in a sense, "read-only") and files that are 
automatically generated in the course of a build? Gnuplot's 
version.c seems to cross that line.

Allin Cottrell