Re: announce: cvs pserver (read-only) access to the git mirror

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> > - The expansion of dates is different (see attached diff). Here the 
>> > git-based
>> >   server uses ISO 8601 notation. (Not that it's bad. It's just different.)
>> >
>> > - Regarding the dates in "cvs log", it's the opposite: Here the original
>> >   CVS uses ISO 8601 notation, and the git-based one doesn't.
>>
>> I don't think any of those are show-stoppers.  Do you?
>
> They are not show-stoppers. But I need to fix "gnulib-tool --version" output
> nevertheless:
>
> 2007-09-17  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
>
>       * gnulib-tool (func_version): Use $version.

I seem to recall that the RCSINIT envvar can
influence the format of dates output by cvs, too.

>From back when I cared more about that, I used this:
  export RCSINIT='-zLT'