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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:59:09 -0500
From: Yuri Vasilevski <yvasilev@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:54:21 -0700
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:41:07PM -0500, Yuri Vasilevski wrote:
> > > I'm doing some research on our usages of the $Header$ keyword in
> > > our main CVS repo.
> > > 
> > > Q: Are there any other use-cases you have and actively use?
> > I use the revision present in the header to identify changes in
> > ebuild files that didn't needed a revision dump.
> Err, what do you mean by revision dump?

revision dump is when foo-1.0-r4 becomes foo-1.0-r5.

But when foo-1.0-r4 is updated in-place, I use CVS revisions
(ej: 1.12 -> 1.13 in 2nd word in $ Header: ....)

Yuri.