daily bumps not enabled on the binutils 2.45 branch

[Jan Beulich]

On 21.07.2025 15:38, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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.

Such filtering would be subjective, I fear. But I anyway don't think the
above is what we want. If a time stamp is needed, it should be taken from
e.g. the most recent commit, without committing the result itself into
the tree. While variants are possible, "most recent commit" would likely
want to mean the most recent upstream one.

Jan