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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Dmitry Samersoff <dms@samersoff.net>
Cc: amodra@gmail.com, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Background of daily update changeset?
References: <52BE7F20.8010709@samersoff.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:28:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <52BE7F20.8010709@samersoff.net> (Dmitry Samersoff's message of	"Sat, 28 Dec 2013 11:34:56 +0400")
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>>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Samersoff <dms@samersoff.net> writes:

Dmitry> What is the goal of daily update of BFD_VERSION_DATE?

I think you'd be better off asking on the binutils list.

My guess is that it's so that snapshots can be exactly identified.
FWIW I'm not really convinced it is all that useful.

Tom