[wwwdocs] Add Subversion revisions to the timeline

[Richard Guenther]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Richard Guenther wrote:
>
>> >   GCC 4.7 Stage 1 (starts 2011-03-14)      GCC 4.6.0 release (2011-03-25)
>> > -       |
>> > +       | r171512
>> >        |
>> >        v
>> >
>> > 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.  Of course, this is
>> > just an approximation, but it think it might still be useful.
>>
>> Uh, well - the information is readily available from SVN
>
> Hmm, you have a very unusual definition of "readily available" :)

Well - of course svn sucks, but

> svn log --stop-on-copy svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/<branch-name> | tail

works for me.

>> so I don't think this is very useful.
>
> It certainly doesn't do any harm so if some people find it useful (and at
> least Florian does) there's no reason to not include it.

We also don't include the branch name - it is "readily available by construction
from elsewhere documented scheme".

I think it clutters the ascii art - where do you stop with adding other "useful"
information?

Richard.

>
> Ciao,
> Michael.