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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date |
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Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:26:24 +0000 |
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:54:35PM -0600, Charles Duffy wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 23:34, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> > There once (before my time) was a patch that added a --date flag to
> > specify the commit date of a patch. Does anyone know where this patch
> > used to live?
> >
> > I'm using cscvs to import code from many years ago and I'd like to
> > maintain an accurate chronology.
>
> One alternative approach, btw, which just occurred to me:
>
> cscvs could support the use of an LD_PRELOAD such as libfaketime to make
> the system time appear to tla to be that at which a commit is supposed
> to occur.
> This still leaves us without a good way of changing my-id for just one
> invocation (without any chance of leaving it in a bad state after an
> unexpected exit) -- but perhaps the same approach could be applied there
> as well.
You can play this game with a lot of syscalls, but experience (ancient
history of libtricks and fakeroot) says that you stay away from
open(); that's the point at which it starts becoming fiendishly
difficult to get right.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date, Dustin Sallings, 2003/12/18
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date, Jason McCarty, 2003/12/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date, Charles Duffy, 2003/12/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date, James Blackwell, 2003/12/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date, Charles Duffy, 2003/12/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date, James Blackwell, 2003/12/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date, Charles Duffy, 2003/12/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date, Dustin Sallings, 2003/12/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date, James Blackwell, 2003/12/18
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date, James Blackwell, 2003/12/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date, Dustin Sallings, 2003/12/18