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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* gnulib-tool (func_version): Use $version.
--- gnulib-tool 16 Sep 2007 00:41:34 -0000 1.258
+++ gnulib-tool 17 Sep 2007 10:23:39 -0000
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
package=gnulib
cvsdatestamp='$Date: 2007/09/16 00:41:34 $'
last_checkin_date=`echo "$cvsdatestamp" | sed -e 's,^\$[D]ate: ,,'`
+# Sometimes last_checkin_date is "YYYY/MM/DD ...", sometimes "YYYY-MM-DD ...".
version=`echo "$last_checkin_date" | sed -e 's/ .*$//' -e 's,/,-,g'`
+# version is in YYYY-MM-DD format.
nl='
'
IFS=" "" $nl"
@@ -196,7 +198,7 @@
# outputs to stdout the --version message.
func_version ()
{
- year=`echo "$last_checkin_date" | sed -e 's,/.*$,,'`
+ year=`echo "$version" | sed -e 's,-.*$,,'`
echo "\
$progname (GNU $package) $version
Copyright (C) $year Free Software Foundation, Inc.
