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From: Yuri Vasilevski <yvasilev@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:59:12
Message-Id: 20080826155909.6d2ba7a6@xdune.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:54:21 -0700
2 "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:41:07PM -0500, Yuri Vasilevski wrote:
5 > > > I'm doing some research on our usages of the $Header$ keyword in
6 > > > our main CVS repo.
7 > > >
8 > > > Q: Are there any other use-cases you have and actively use?
9 > > I use the revision present in the header to identify changes in
10 > > ebuild files that didn't needed a revision dump.
11 > Err, what do you mean by revision dump?
12
13 revision dump is when foo-1.0-r4 becomes foo-1.0-r5.
14
15 But when foo-1.0-r4 is updated in-place, I use CVS revisions
16 (ej: 1.12 -> 1.13 in 2nd word in $ Header: ....)
17
18 Yuri.

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