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

Petr Ovtchenkov ptr@void-ptr.info
Wed Sep 20 14:36:00 GMT 2017


Hello everyone,

What is the meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits?
I mean commits like f625a739e5.

This commits litter commits tree and create problems for  	
deterministic, bit-identical and/or verifiable builds.

May be worth to remove this (historical?) artifact?

WBR,

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    - ptr



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