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Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: Petr Ovtchenkov <ptr at void-ptr dot info>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 23:34:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <20170920173622.28500ccf@void-ptr.info> <87zi9p2vma.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <20170920202354.3c863857@void-ptr.info>
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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