Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] podwrapper.sh: Use date from ChangeLog

* Richard W.M. Jones: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 08:57:15PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> (2) In the 'make dist' rule, write a 'date' file and use that here? >> Only 'date' would have to be included in git. > > This could be useful: > > $ git show -s --format=%ci $(git rev-parse HEAD) > 2012-07-08 12:55:44 +0100 What is git rev-parse HEAD needed for?

How about something like this? if [ -e $abs_top_srcdir/ChangeLog ]; then DATEPARAM=`awk '/^[0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+/ { print "--date=" $1; exit }' \ $abs_top_srcdir/ChangeLog` else if [ -d $abs_top_srcdir/.git ]; then DATEPARAM=`git show -s --format=%ci | awk '{print "--date=" $1}'` fi (If $DATEPARAM is not set, pod2man would fall back to its current behavior.)