Re: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds

[Danny van Dyk]

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
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