Re: [wwwdocs] Add Subversion revisions to the timeline

[Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 07:15, Richard Guenther
<richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>> Would something like this be useful?
>>
>> --- develop.html.~1.114.~ Â Â Â 2011-03-26 10:44:52.000000000 +0100
>> +++ develop.html    Â2011-03-26 10:58:49.311173994 +0100
>> @@ -434,13 +434,13 @@
>> Â Â Â Â| Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â GCC 4.5.1 release (2010-07-31)
>> Â GCC 4.6 Stage 3 (starts 2010-11-03) Â Â Â Â Â\
>> Â Â Â Â| Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âv
>> - Â Â Â | Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â GCC 4.5.2 release (2010-12-16)
>> + Â Â Â | r167945 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â GCC 4.5.2 release (2010-12-16)
>> Â Â Â Â|
>> Â Â Â Â+-- GCC 4.6 branch created ------+
>> - Â Â Â | Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \
>> + Â Â Â | r170934 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \
>>    Âv                 Âv
>> Â GCC 4.7 Stage 1 (starts 2011-03-14) Â Â ÂGCC 4.6.0 release (2011-03-25)
>> - Â Â Â |
>> + Â Â Â | r171512
>> Â Â Â Â|
>> Â Â Â Âv
>>
>> The idea is to include the copy-source revision on the trunk or the
>> respective branch, so that you can use the timeline to check whether a
>> particular change came before or after a release. ÂOf course, this is
>> just an approximation, but it think it might still be useful.
>
> Uh, well - the information is readily available from SVN so I don't
> think this is very useful.

I find it very useful actually.  To figure out the rev at which to cut
my 4.6 branch, I had to checkout gcc-4_6-branch and check the log.
This would've made it slightly easier.  Besides, I don't see any harm
in adding this info.


Diego.