Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Migrating man page to asciidoc?

[Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org>]

On 06/26/2011 06:44 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 06:14:59AM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>>> I think the best solution is to simply hack the timestamp on the
>>> generated files or something similar. We definitely don't want `emerge
>>> =catalyst-2*` to require asciidoc and all its indirect dependencies
>>> for a single man page, and we definitely don't want to check-in
>>> generated files to git for a variety of reasons.
> 
> The thing about this approach though is, how do you know what timestamp
> to put on the  generated files?

You could pick a hardcode one.  If traball identity is the goal, any
fake timestamp will suffice.


> When you do:
> 
> git archive --prefix catalyst-x.x -o catalyst-x.x.tar catalyst_x_x
> 
> It takes the time/date from the tree some way and puts that time and
> date on the files in the tarball.

I'm aware.  I use git archive where I don't have generated content involved.



Sebastian