Re: No MC snapshot since 2006-12-28

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 01:27, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 23:07 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:07, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 17:51 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > > > Would you check why the snapshot is not being generated ?
> > > 
> > > No problems this time.  I run the snapshot generator manually from time
> > > to time.  The new snapshot is available now.
> > 
> > I see. I thought the snapshot was generated manually. At
> > least it seemed to me that new versions appear after changes
> > were commited :) Perhaps the process can be automated ?
> 
> The script will need to find out if there are any updates in CVS.  We
> don't want to post a snapshot without actual changes in CVS.
> Unfortunately, there is no single commit ID in CVS, so I'll need to
> implement an algorithm to calculate it (I think it could be SHA1 of the
> sorted list of all files with revisions).

Isn't it possible to use the CVS output to see if there were updated
files ?