On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Richard Guenther
<richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Dongsheng Song
> <dongsheng.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:44, Richard Guenther <richard.guent...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It would be nice if the scripts could check whether only DATESTAMP
>>> changes were done since the last snapshot ...
>>
>> Just for curiousness, why we bump the DATESTAMP when the last commit is
>> DATESTAMP changes on the branch ?
>
> I wonder why we keep DATESTAMP at all now that we have a global
> source revision number (remember, CVS did not have that).
>

You get revision number only with contrib/gcc_update and not
everyone uses it.  See:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2011-01/

I primarily use GIT mirror which doesn't use subversion number.

-- 
H.J.

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