Switching to Git

[Tanguy Ortolo]

Joost van Baal-Ilić, 2013-02-24 07:34+0100:
>We have the script
>http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-flyers/general/translation-check.pl?view=markup .
>
>It contains
>
> # Read the original CVS/Entries file and extract version from it
> if (open (CVS_ENTRY,"<CVS/Entries")) {
>
>The script is used in
>http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-flyers/general/Makefile?view=markup ,
>which has:
>
> # check up-to-dateness of translations
> check:
>     @for l in $(transfiles); do ./translation-check.pl $$l; done

I see the general point of that, but I am not used to CVS and I do not 
understand Perl very well. This script is clearly made to indicate 
whether or not each translation is up-to-date, but it uses some kind of 
version number for that, is that simply a common CVS revision number?

I would be able to write a script, certainly not in Perl but rather in 
Python, or perhaps just in shell using the usual Git utilities, that 
could, given two files, compare the dates of the commits that modified 
them last time, for instance:
     2013-01-14 19:38 $ vim foo
     2013-01-14 19:40 $ git add foo
     2013-01-14 19:40 $ git commit

     2013-02-12 23:24 $ vim bar
     2013-02-12 23:27 $ git add bar
     2013-02-12 23:27 $ git commit

     2013-02-21 20:06 $ ./check-freshness foo bar
     bar (2013-01-14 19:40) is up-to-date compared to foo (2013-02-12 23:27)

Do you think that would be suitable?

>and no other code to generate a date.  To me, this looks like the
>rcsinfo/MyRCS-stuff is just dead code, it is no longer used.  I believe
>"\usepackage[today,datehyphen]{rcsinfo}" should get removed.

I think so, I shall try it.

-- 
Tanguy Ortolo
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