From 05e8b658e633f37456340b83b01fa304f9fcc5d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Folkinshteyn <nanotube@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:08:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add script to automatically update version with a datestamp
 upon commit.

---
 sandbox/version-commit | 10 ++++++++++
 src/version.py         |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100755 sandbox/version-commit

diff --git a/sandbox/version-commit b/sandbox/version-commit
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..2a41cd134
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sandbox/version-commit
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Use this script to make commits. It will automatically update the version
+# string to have a datetime stamp, prior to committing.
+# All arguments get passed to git commit, so of course, use the -a option so that 
+# the version change gets added to the commit.
+echo "Updating version..."
+perl -pi -e  "s/^version\s*=\s*['\"]([\S]+)[ '\"].*/version = '\1 ($( date -Iseconds ))'/" src/version.py
+if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
+    git commit $@
+fi
diff --git a/src/version.py b/src/version.py
index f87586219..33e683489 100644
--- a/src/version.py
+++ b/src/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """stick the various versioning attributes in here, so we only have to change
 them once."""
-version = '0.83.4.1+gribble'
+version = '0.83.4.1+gribble (2010-08-20T11:08:31-0400)'