Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits

Andreas Schwab
2017-09-20T21:34:53Z

On Sep 20 2017, Petr Ovtchenkov <ptr@void-ptr.info> wrote:

> You see:
>
> git show 3110f4be18a2
> commit 3110f4be18a2f3b9fcd9663ed1dd141bbd6ed14f
> Author: GDB Administrator <gdbadmin@sourceware.org>
> Date: Wed Sep 20 00:01:01 2017 +0000
>
> Automatic date update in version.in
>
> diff --git a/bfd/version.h b/bfd/version.h
> index 3405e42..955269f 100644
> --- a/bfd/version.h
> +++ b/bfd/version.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -#define BFD_VERSION_DATE 20170919
> +#define BFD_VERSION_DATE 20170920
> #define BFD_VERSION @bfd_version@
> #define BFD_VERSION_STRING @bfd_version_package@ @bfd_version_string@
> #define REPORT_BUGS_TO @report_bugs_to@
>
> git show f625a739
> commit f625a739e567f0110b2675539b7a0e5d5f67c5dc
> Author: GDB Administrator <gdbadmin@sourceware.org>
> Date: Wed Sep 20 00:01:22 2017 +0000
>
> Automatic date update in version.in
>
> diff --git a/bfd/version.h b/bfd/version.h
> index 3405e42..955269f 100644
> --- a/bfd/version.h
> +++ b/bfd/version.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -#define BFD_VERSION_DATE 20170919
> +#define BFD_VERSION_DATE 20170920
> #define BFD_VERSION @bfd_version@
> #define BFD_VERSION_STRING @bfd_version_package@ @bfd_version_string@
> #define REPORT_BUGS_TO @report_bugs_to@
>
> git diff 3110f4be18a2 f625a739
> ...
> Ooops....
>
> This approch produce ambiguity, but try to conceal it.

You look at two different snapshots. What do you expect?

Andreas.

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