Reg : Keyword expansion

[Mark A. Flacy]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 20:20 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:

> EXACTLY - your advice has little use for any script language based project !!!

Only if you don't know what you are doing, which you appear to be
proving with each post.

> I need each file in the distribution to be CORRECTLY versionied so that *I* can 
> check which version of a package a client is using.

That is incorrect.  Well, maybe *you* believe that is what you need to
get that done, but that doesn't make it true for anyone else.

You appear to have missed the point that DVC systems do not track
individual file changes.

>  The crude facilities 
> currently provided in hg ( and git ) do not allow proper management of project 
> distribution - end of story ...

I guess you mean that neither hg, git, or bzr allow you to manage your
project distribution in exactly the same way that was required to do so
by CVS.

> 
> Add a raft of modules with different versions as currently managed by any CVS 
> system and both hg and git are still playing catchup .... a single unrelated 
> file providing some random numbers does not provide the level of information needed.

No, a changeset hash tells you *exactly* what is in your repository at
that moment.  That's all you need and you only need it once.

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Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net>