Henry Version Control v0.3
by
Rune Jacobsen
· Introduction
HVC was born out of need for a simple version control system for another project
of mine, Henry (which you may have guessed). I have looked at a few of the
others, and they didn't do exactly what I wanted, so I wrote my own. Turned out
to be a nice little exercise :)
· Why does it rule? (This section also doubles as documentation)
I doubt that it does, but it's dead simple. Everything is based around the
magical file "HVC.h" - a header file this program automatically generates if
there is no such file there already. If there is one there, it will read in the
Version, Revision and Build numbers from this file, update the time info, and
write it back. And if you give one or more of the arguments VER, REV or BUILD it
will bump them by one. Simple? Yes, I think so. Also, the output you get should
be adequate for your version needs:
>--- Sample HVC.h file ---
/*
** Henry Version Control
** By Rune Jacobsen
*/
#define VERSION 0
#define VERSTRING "0"
#define REVISION 3
#define REVSTRING "3"
#define BUILD 15
#define BUILDSTRING "15"
#define TIMESTRING "19:39:33"
#define DATESTRING "8/9-97"
/* EOF */
>--- Sample HVC.h file ---
The way I use it is that I have a " HVC BUILD" thrown into my smakefile so that
every time I attempt to compile my project, the Build variable increases by one.
Then, when I eventually decide that enough bugs have been fixed to justify a
revision change, I do a "HVC REV" in a shell. I don't know about using the "VER"
switch yet, as my project will probably stay at version 0 for quite a few months
still. ;)
In my C program, I have a tiny little .c file that just uses these definitions
to build up my version string etc. This little bugger is compiled every time I
do a smake (just takes 1-2 seconds anyway), and then the whole goob is linked
into the final executable. Any other .o modules in my project that needs these
values can of course get them as external variables, and that way they don't
need to be recompiled. If there is such a thing as a God, I'm sure this is the
way (s)he intended compilation and revision control to work. ;)
One thing to note is that the time string uses a 24 hour clock, and the date
string is in "european" form, i.e. DD/MM/YY. If this is a problem for you, mail
me and bug me, and maybe I'll release a special one for you ;) Anyway, this is
stuff that could easily be controlled by an env-variable, and I'll add that if
there is any interest for it.
· How much does it cost?
Just a couple of bytes. HVC is Emailware, so if you use it (or just like it),
you should mail me (see top of file) and tell me about it. Of course,
suggestions etc. are welcome too.
If this program is ported to any Microsoft OS, I will of course have to charge
anyone who uses it $50 - $100 and add a 1.2MB .DLL for keyfile checking, to keep
with the tradition of that community.
· Revision history (Yeah, of course I had to include this, it's what it's all
about, man! ;D)
v0.3 (8/9-97)
- Initial release to Aminet
- Wrote readme file
v0.2 (8/9-97)
- Added the time functions
v0.1 (7/9-97)
- Got the idea
- Added ReadArgs() parsing of arguments
- Added parsing of already existing HVC.h file
- Added writing back to file
· About the author
Hey, my name is Rune Jacobsen and I have a car. You can email me or visit me on
IRC. I am most often on Undernet #AmigaCafe (Shitlips is the nick), but I also
have some guest appearances on ARCnet #IBeta (same nick).
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