[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2479) Change version string of development versions

["Raimar Falke via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:00:46AM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> Secondly, it will require a commit to this file every time any other 
> file is committed.  This may be done by a script, but having a script 
> that actually makes changes to the code is dangerous.

The script only commits the file with -f and CVS itself will update
the $Id...$ value.

> Thirdly, it won't actually give foolproof results.  If you "cvs up -A" 
> or "cvs up -D ..." from the toplevel directory, you're fine.  But if you 
> apply a patch or update only part of a repository, your datestamp will 
> be misleading.  So the end result is that it will work for the daily 
> snapshots, but not too well for any self-compiled CVS versions.

I agree.

> The goal is to know what code someone is using when they report a bug. 

IMHO the goal is more to get a more accurate label for the meta
server. Bugs reports against CVS alwas have to happen against a clean
HEAD version of CVS.

        Raimar

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