daily bumps not enabled on the binutils 2.45 branch

[H.J. Lu]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> >>> Please enable the daily bumps on the binutils 2.45 branch.
> >>
> >> Why do want them ?
> >>
> >> We already have an issue with too much cruft in the git logs
> >> from the daily bumps on the mainline.  Do we really need it
> >> on the branch too ?
> >
> > Indeed - weren't we rather hoping to get rid of them on the main
> > branch, too?
>
> Yes.  But I do not think that we ever found an effective way to do so.
> (Suggestions still welcome however...)
>

The daily date bump script should do a "git diff" with irrelevant changes
filtered out to decide if a date bump is needed or not, something like

git log bfd/version.h | head -1 | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs git diff
--stat=4096 | grep -v "files changed" |  awk '{ print $1 }'

and filter out changes on documentation and tests.

-- 
H.J.