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

[Timothy Redaelli]

Alle venerdì 20 aprile 2007, Fabian Groffen ha scritto:
> On 20-04-2007 15:45:00 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > > I use it to make deltas of changes made in the tree, and apply those
> > > deltas on the overlay I'm using.  Without $Header: $ there I have no
> > > way to actually see which version I'm dealing with, so which revisions
> > > to retrieve for differences.
> > > For that reason, I prefer as much files as possible in the tree to have
> > > a $Header: $ somewhere, so I can easily sync, keeping my local changes.
> >
> > Is the info you need in CVS/ ?
>
> That requires:
> a) an up-to-date CVS tree checkout
> b) a CVS tree (not a regular rsynced one)
> c) parsing of the CVS/Entries file
>
> So in principle, yes I think it can be done using the CVS directory, but
> I prefer not to.

+1

Header is useful to know which ebuild have the user

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