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Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits


On Sep 20 2017, Petr Ovtchenkov <ptr@void-ptr.info> wrote:

> You see:
>
> git show 3110f4be18a2
>   commit 3110f4be18a2f3b9fcd9663ed1dd141bbd6ed14f
>   Author: GDB Administrator <gdbadmin@sourceware.org>
>   Date:   Wed Sep 20 00:01:01 2017 +0000
>
>       Automatic date update in version.in
>
>   diff --git a/bfd/version.h b/bfd/version.h
>   index 3405e42..955269f 100644
>   --- a/bfd/version.h
>   +++ b/bfd/version.h
>   @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>   -#define BFD_VERSION_DATE 20170919
>   +#define BFD_VERSION_DATE 20170920
>    #define BFD_VERSION @bfd_version@
>    #define BFD_VERSION_STRING  @bfd_version_package@ @bfd_version_string@
>    #define REPORT_BUGS_TO @report_bugs_to@
>
> git show f625a739     
>   commit f625a739e567f0110b2675539b7a0e5d5f67c5dc
>   Author: GDB Administrator <gdbadmin@sourceware.org>
>   Date:   Wed Sep 20 00:01:22 2017 +0000
>
>       Automatic date update in version.in
>
>   diff --git a/bfd/version.h b/bfd/version.h
>   index 3405e42..955269f 100644
>   --- a/bfd/version.h
>   +++ b/bfd/version.h
>   @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>   -#define BFD_VERSION_DATE 20170919
>   +#define BFD_VERSION_DATE 20170920
>    #define BFD_VERSION @bfd_version@
>    #define BFD_VERSION_STRING  @bfd_version_package@ @bfd_version_string@
>    #define REPORT_BUGS_TO @report_bugs_to@
>
> git diff 3110f4be18a2 f625a739
> ...
> Ooops....
>
> This approch produce ambiguity, but try to conceal it.

You look at two different snapshots.  What do you expect?

Andreas.

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