CVS, dates, and versions

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Ben Pfaff on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:01:33AM -0400:
> Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > OK, I have some documentation spread across several different files
> > something like this:
> > 
> > Header information (contained in file0)
> > #include file1
> > #include file2
> > #include file3
> > Footer info
> > 
> > I'm using CVS to keep track of changes, and I'd like the header
> > information to include the date when the document was last modified.
> > I've used $Date: $ in the header, except that only works when the
> > *header* file is modified, not when its children are.  I suppose
> > I could write a wrapper for "cvs ci" that modifies the header, (or
> > updates an #included file called "version" or something), but that
> > seems like the "wrong way" to do it... Any "smarter" ideas on how
> > I could do this "automatically"?
> 
> Use a makefile?  Something like this:
> 	version: file0 file1 file2 file3
> 		date > version
> Then you can just do `make; cvs ci' and version will be updated
> whenever file0 or any of its include files changes.

Yeah, I probably should move to a makefile (using a script to
generate different forms of output right now).  Could add 
something like:

update:
    make version
    cvs ci
    make output # HTML, PS, etc.

Then I could take care of most everything with "make update".
*sigh* Guess it's about time to convert my script to a Makefile...

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