On 06/26/2011 06:44 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 06:14:59AM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >>> I think the best solution is to simply hack the timestamp on the >>> generated files or something similar. We definitely don't want `emerge >>> =catalyst-2*` to require asciidoc and all its indirect dependencies >>> for a single man page, and we definitely don't want to check-in >>> generated files to git for a variety of reasons. > > The thing about this approach though is, how do you know what timestamp > to put on the generated files?
You could pick a hardcode one. If traball identity is the goal, any fake timestamp will suffice. > When you do: > > git archive --prefix catalyst-x.x -o catalyst-x.x.tar catalyst_x_x > > It takes the time/date from the tree some way and puts that time and > date on the files in the tarball. I'm aware. I use git archive where I don't have generated content involved. Sebastian
