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Re: Background of daily update changeset?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Dmitry Samersoff <dms at samersoff dot net>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:36:16 -0700
- Subject: Re: Background of daily update changeset?
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>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> writes:
Tom> My guess is that it's so that snapshots can be exactly identified.
Alan> Yes. HJ distributes his "Linux binutils", based on snapshots of
Alan> mainline plus some extra patches. Other people distribute snapshots
Alan> too. The date gives us some chance of tying Joe User's bug report to
Alan> the source.
Tom> FWIW I'm not really convinced it is all that useful.
Alan> I agree that it doesn't make much sense for gdb..
I'm curious how much use you really get out of it for binutils.
Alternatively, Would it be sufficient if "src-release" instead stuck the
git commit hash into some file?
It's not of major importance to me, more like a rainy day thing. But if
it's high value to you then I wouldn't change a thing.
Tom