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Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
:
: > : I don't believe you should relay on being the only user.
: > : At least please bump __FreeBSD_version.
: >
: > I'm pretty sure that he is the only FreeBSD/arm user that's using
: > RELENG_6 :-). We're using current at work, but will soon transition
: > to RELENG_6, now that these patches have been MFC'd. Of course, it
: > wouldn't hurt to at least document this change in the sequence of
: > version bumps on the 6.x timeline. But the number of people affected
: > can be counted on one hand, with fingers left over.
: >
: > Warner
:
: Maybe this has been discussed in the past, but why don't we just have
: __FreeBSD_version auto-incremented every day? It would be great for
: situations where we currently use it, and it's also be great for bug
: reports.
That's been discussed to death, but you can't use the results of
'date' to do it, and it causes horrible repo churn if you commit a
change like this every day to multiple branches. In short, it sounds
good, but when you go to actually implement you discover that it
really is lame.
Warner
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