Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [newbie] Is it possible to put in a source file the date of last tree commit?

[David MENTRE]

Hello Charles,

Charles Duffy <address@hidden> writes:

> No, Arch does not support this, and there's a strong argument to be made
> to the effect that it's a Bad Idea.

Have you a rationale for that? Any keyword that I might use to look into
the mailing-list archive to know why?

> If you want this for your version string or somesuch, though, you
> could pretty straightforwardly have your build process munge the
> current version/patchlevel into a header file and go from there.

Ok. I can use "tla tree-version" to have the complete version tree but
which command can I use to have the latest patchlevel? Should I use 
"tla revisions | tail -1"?


Thank you for your reply,
Yours,
david
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 David Mentré <address@hidden>