Re: [Monotone-devel] package_full_revision.txt and derived files

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 06:29:13PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> The problem lies in the dependencies, not in the tool.
> 
> package_full_revision.txt is currently regarded as a .PHONY, which is
> the reason it gets constantly rebuilt.  Is there a reason it can't
> depend on MT/revision?

Yes.  The point of package_full_revision is that it also lists
uncommitted changes, so that one can tell whether the binary actually
is the one that MT/revision would suggest.  There's no way to do this
except by running 'monotone status' on each and every build...

-- Nathaniel

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