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Re: script updates



Hi Josip!

You wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:48:45AM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > As a first preparation for a possible move of the webwml repository to
> > subversion or git, I have started to rewrite the perl scripts.  I'm
> > abstracting all VCS-related actions into a separate perl module, so that
> > it will (hopefully) be easy to change whatever backend we use.
> 
> How do you intend to resolve the matter of tracking versions, what was
> in CVS the process of incrementing the file revision numerically?

That depends on the VCS we decde to use.  
For Subversion I have a method that uses a trigger on the server to
update the file revisions to the correct numbers.  For git, it's
apparently possible to predict the SHA revision hash, so there should be
no issues there.

Bas.

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