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On 28 Jan 2016 15:01, H.J. Lu wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:56 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > >> Can the automatic "daily update" and "Automatic date update in version.in" > >> commits be stopped? Or at least only performed if the last commit was not > >> itself such a commit? > > > > I note that these are still being produced. Is it possible to stop them as > > they make a mess of the git history? > > > > I think Andreas Schwab suggested that it might be necessary as you can't > > directly compare two git hashes without a repo handy to give them context - > > but how often is that actually a problem? If you are comparing two points on > > the same branch, you can consult the ChangeLog files and if they're produced > > separate branches, then comparing the dates is potentially meaningless anyway. > > > > Further, not having an incrementing version doesn't necessarily mean that you > > can't name published tarballs for the date on which they're produced. > > I don't mind stopping updating bfd/version.h as long as "ld --version" > displays different versions from linkers of different dates. s/dates/source trees (e.g. diff git sha1)/ -mike
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