Can the automatic daily update commits be stopped, take 2

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 00:25:00 GMT 2016


On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 28 Jan 2016 15:01, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:56 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> Can the automatic "daily update" and "Automatic date update in version.in"
>> >> commits be stopped?  Or at least only performed if the last commit was not
>> >> itself such a commit?
>> >
>> > I note that these are still being produced.  Is it possible to stop them as
>> > they make a mess of the git history?
>> >
>> > I think Andreas Schwab suggested that it might be necessary as you can't
>> > directly compare two git hashes without a repo handy to give them context -
>> > but how often is that actually a problem?  If you are comparing two points on
>> > the same branch, you can consult the ChangeLog files and if they're produced
>> > separate branches, then comparing the dates is potentially meaningless anyway.
>> >
>> > Further, not having an incrementing version doesn't necessarily mean that you
>> > can't name published tarballs for the date on which they're produced.
>>
>> I don't mind stopping updating bfd/version.h as long as "ld --version"
>> displays different versions from linkers of different dates.
>
> s/dates/source trees (e.g. diff git sha1)/
> -mike

It is hard to tell which one is newer without using git source.


-- 
H.J.



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