including a checksum of the diff in uname

[Eitan Adler]

On 12 May 2018 at 19:50, Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 4:41 AM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I often have several variants of the same revision that I'm testing or
>> working on at any given time.
>>
>> What do you y'all think of something like this:
>>
>> Index: sys/conf/newvers.sh
>> ===================================================================
>> --- sys/conf/newvers.sh (revision 333575)
>> +++ sys/conf/newvers.sh (working copy)
>> @@ -203,6 +203,8 @@ if [ -n "$svnversion" ] ; then
>>   [0-9]*[MSP]|*:*)
>>   svn=" r${svn}"
>>   modified=true
>> + ck="$(svn diff | cksum | cut -w -f 1)"
>> + svn="$svn-$ck"
>>   ;;
>>   [0-9]*)
>>   svn=" r${svn}"
>>
>> to help differentiate.
>>
>> You end up with a version that looks like: r333575M-4294967295?
>>
>
> Don't develop with svn. get yourself a git or hg setup and a tmp branch.
> The branch name is always included along with the commit hash.

That makes sense, and I might do that in the future. In the past
adding files was more painful with git, though I'm told this is no
longer the case.

In any case, is there any reason not to add the above patch?



-- 
Eitan Adler