Stopping daily bump of version.c on old/closed branches

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> My first question would be:  Do people think that we should stop
> updating gcc/version.c on old or obsoleted branches?

Somehow this proposal lead to a bikeshed, and in general Gaby's suggestion
only got positive responses, so after waiting one week I implemented the
most conservative of all proposals in the most low-tech way per the patch
below.

Tested on gcc.gnu.org and installed on mainline.

Gerald

2003-05-02  Gerald Pfeifer  <gerald@pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

	* update_version (IGNORE_BRANCHES): Add.
	(BRANCHES): Do not consider branches matching $IGNORE_BRANCHES.

Index: update_version
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/maintainer-scripts/update_version,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -3 -p -r1.9 update_version
--- update_version	2 May 2003 09:13:52 -0000	1.9
+++ update_version	2 May 2003 09:35:48 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/sh

-# Run this from /tmp.
 CVSROOT=${CVSROOT:-/cvs/gcc}
+IGNORE_BRANCHES='gcc-(2_95|3_0|3_1|3_2)-branch'
+
+# Run this from /tmp.
 export CVSROOT
 /bin/rm -rf /tmp/$$
 /bin/mkdir /tmp/$$
@@ -14,7 +16,8 @@ CVS=${CVS:-/usr/local/bin/cvs}
 $CVS co gcc/ChangeLog
 BRANCHES=`$CVS status -v gcc/ChangeLog \
           | awk '{print $1;}' \
-          | egrep 'gcc-[0-9]+_[0-9]+-branch$'`
+          | egrep 'gcc-[0-9]+_[0-9]+-branch$' \
+          | egrep -v $IGNORE_BRANCHES`
 # Always update the mainline.
 BRANCHES="${BRANCHES} HEAD"