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

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:14:17PM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:41:02PM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Reinier Post wrote:
> > > This has a serious problem: a date doesn't identify the contents of
> > > the repository.Better use a timestamp in seconds.
> > 
> > The file's CVS version number? It will be incremented for each commit.
> 
> Yes.  And it's shorter too!

Implementing this is - as always - harder than I thought.

The only safe way to do it that I can see is to make
cvs ci invoke a cvs ci in a special subdirectory
(unless the cvs ci is already in that subdirectory)
which contains only the global version file.
The special subdirectory gets us out of locking problems.

I have been testing but I can't promise to finish it today.

> >   - Per
> 
> -- 
> Reinier