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Re: [commit 1/3] Import gnulib's update-copyright script
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:52:25 -0700
- Subject: Re: [commit 1/3] Import gnulib's update-copyright script
- References: <1325665146-31682-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> <1325665146-31682-2-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> <4F8EB486.5020308@redhat.com> <20120418143606.GA2852@adacore.com> <4F8ED35E.1040208@redhat.com>
> I don't see how that scripts would have prevented the selective
> check-in. :-)
Perhaps not, but what I would have done was doing an update first,
check that in, and then add the new module. WDYT?
> It may help by keeping the git version in some script variable, that
> the script checks, instead of having to fetch the version from the
> ChangeLog? The new gnulib/ parent directory seems like a good place
> for this stuff.
Sure. Since there does not appear to be gnulib releases, I was
under the impression that we'd always go with the current head,
somehow. Having the hash in the script is a good idea, makes
things completely reproduceable...
--
Joel