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

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > > > I would like, when doing a commit, to automatically put the commit 
date
    > > > and time in a source file of my project. I would like something like
    > > > $Date$ tag of CVS

    > > > Is it possible to do that with GNU Arch? If yes, how?

    > > No. The design to do so has been specced, but so far no one has
    > > implemented it.

    > I've seen arguments about this, but I wasn't aware it was actually
    > considered an acceptable feature to add to tla...

It's not, as far as I'm concerned.

    > $Date$ tags seem more like a do-things-like-cvs-by-default reflex than the
    > result of actually thinking about a problem.

:-)

    > The info is already there, in a non-harmful form, in the patch-logs.  If 
you
    > want sort of thing embedded in your _executable_, it's easy enough to add 
a
    > Makefile tweak to extract it from the patch-logs.

-t