[petsc-dev] dates of last change on PETSc web pages

[Jed Brown]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 22:15, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/KeywordExtension  seems to be what we
> should use. It appears that the hg makes sure the working copy always has
> the value (Date of last change in our case) in files one sees.
>

I don't really want to read diffs of all those dates.


> Proving Linus thinks like Satish:
>
> Not sure this will ever be in Git. To quote Linus: "The whole notion of
> keyword substitution is just totally idiotic. It's trivial to do "outside"
> of the actual content tracking, if you want to have it when doing release
> trees as tar-balls etc."


Are we that concerned with src/docs/website being unnamed before writing
the tarball?

I think the date should go into the generated man pages while they are
generated because that is when you know the modification date of the file.
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