Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits
Mikhail Terekhov <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gdb.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.binutils |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 09/20/17 15:54, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 20.09.2017 21:26, Mikhail Terekhov wrote: > >> What if build scripts obtain date of last commit automatically i.e. something >> like this: >> >> ~/tmp/gdb/binutils-gdb (master)>git log -1 --format=%cd --date=format:%Y%m%d >> 20170920 >> >> Then there is no need for additional commit. > no, you can't assume that git is available for builds. > Then you can't be sure that the date is correct.