Am Sonntag, 22. April 2007 schrieb Michael Cummings: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:47:54AM +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > I do the same. The '$Header: $' tells me which version of a file > > in the CVS tree I last synced to in my overlay, then I can just do > > a cvs diff on the tree to get a patch of differences since then. > > Very useful. > > FWIW, I've used the $Header $ to determine if a person is looking at > the latest greatest or needs to synch up first (in particular when I > was dealing with an eclass bug). Very useful when dealing with bugs > and you need to confirm that the user is completely synch'd up and > looking at a current tree or not (because just asking when the last > time they synch'd doesn't help).
This can be done using checksum like SHA1 much better, as people can edit their ebuilds/eclasses/profiles and forget/lie about it, and still have the same $Headers$ line. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
