Re: revision/version numbers

[Donald Sharp]

Ick.  I hate keyword expansions.  The minute you ever merge
between branches you have to deal with those keywords.

donald


On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:18:45PM +0100, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:53:33PM -0500, Robert Clark wrote:
> 
> > If you are not too worried a few odd merge conflicts, you could always add 
> > the
> > $Revision$ or $Id$ keywords to a comment in your source code and the write 
> > the canonical 5 lines of Perl to snag the revision number from the file. Or 
> > use ident (which is part of RCS) to do that for you.
> 
> Sorry for coming to this discussion this late, but IMHO, using the "RCS
> way" (ident with $Id$ in the source code *and* the binary) seems to me
> to be the best solution for what Katherine needs.
> 
> 'ident'ing the resulting binary gives you exactly what you need, the
> list of all revisions of the sources used to compile that binary.
> 
> Spiro.
> 
> 
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