It's very simple (only for trunk, although it maybe more useful for branches):
Index: update_version_svn =================================================================== --- update_version_svn (revision 169428) +++ update_version_svn (working copy) @@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ SVNROOT2=${SVNROOT}/branches/${BRANCH} fi + LAST_COMMITER=`${SVN} log -q -l 1 ${SVNROOT2} | awk '{if (NR==2) {print $3; exit}}'` + if test "${LAST_COMMITER}" = "gccadmin"; then + echo "The last commiter is gccadmin, bump DATASTAMP skipped." + continue + fi + for i in $datestamp_FILES; do ${SVN} -q co -N ${SVNROOT2}/`dirname $i` `basename $i` done On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 06:23, Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Dongsheng Song wrote: > > Just for curiousness, why we bump the DATESTAMP when the last commit > > is DATESTAMP changes on the branch ? > > As far as I am concerned, that's a bug (or a missing feature). The > script in question is maintainer-scripts/update_version_svn in the GCC > source repository. I already made some simplifications today and am > planning to do a bit more tonight. Are you interested in improving > the script to address this issue? > > Gerald