On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 04:05:08AM -0400, al davis wrote: > So if the WIP branch prints the same message as the stable one, > I run it, how do I know that I have actually run the WIP branch?
theres a commit in autotools-WIP that adds the git branch to the version number. this is something to play with... > In my old system with RCS, that was semi-automatic as part of > the checkin target in the Makefile. Is there a way with Git to > have it generate some kind of string as part of the program on a > checkin? the mechanism is quite simple: configure checks whether git is available and .git is a directory, then pastes the branch name into the constant GIT_BRANCH. anything else (commit id, description or even manual-override) should be trivial to add. > In my own non-released work, I do change the patchlev string, > for these reasons. i see. i have my gnucap instances sorted by prefix and select with $PATH. that way confusion is impossible. regards felix _______________________________________________ Gnucap-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucap-devel
