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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Update the current version date in all files in the tree containing
+# it.  Consider all release branches except those matching the regular
+# expression in $IGNORE_BRANCHES, and also consider those branches listed
+# in $ADD_BRANCHES.
+
+SVNROOT=${SVNROOT:-"file:///svn/gcc"}
+IGNORE_BRANCHES='gcc-(2_95|3_0|3_1|3_2|3_3)-branch'
+ADD_BRANCHES='HEAD autovect-branch dfp-branch'
+
+# Run this from /tmp.
+export SVNROOT
+/bin/rm -rf /tmp/$$
+/bin/mkdir /tmp/$$
+cd /tmp/$$
+
+# The path to cvs.
+SVN=${SVN:-/usr/bin/svn}
+
+# Compute the branches which we should update.
+BRANCHES=`$SVN ls $SVNROOT/branches \
+	  | sed -e 's/\///' \
+          | egrep 'gcc-[0-9]+_[0-9]+-branch$' \
+          | egrep -v $IGNORE_BRANCHES`
+
+# Always update the mainline.
+BRANCHES="${BRANCHES} ${ADD_BRANCHES}"
+BRANCHES="HEAD"
+# ARGS is passed to 'cvs co'
+CURR_DATE=`/bin/date +"%Y%m%d"`
+
+# version is contained within a char*
+textstring_FILES="gcc/version.c"
+
+# version is contained within a #define
+cppdefine_FILES="libstdc++-v3/include/bits/c++config"
+
+# version is all there is
+datestamp_FILES="gcc/DATESTAMP"
+
+FILES="$textstring_FILES $cppdefine_FILES $datestamp_FILES"
+DIRS="$textstring_DIRS $cppdefine_DIRS $datestamp_DIRS"
+
+# Assume all will go well.
+RESULT=0
+for BRANCH in $BRANCHES; do
+  echo "Working on \"$BRANCH\"."
+  # Check out the files on the branch.  HEAD is a special case; if
+  # you check out files with -r HEAD, CVS will not let you check 
+  # in changes.
+  if test "$BRANCH" = HEAD; then 
+    for i in $FILES; do
+      ${SVN} co -N ${SVNROOT}/trunk/`dirname $i` `basename $i`
+    done
+  else
+    for i in $FILES; do
+      ${SVN} co -N ${SVNROOT}/branches/${BRANCH}/`dirname $i` `basename $i`
+    done
+  fi
+
+  # There are no files to commit yet.
+  COMMIT_FILES=""
+   
+  for file in $textstring_FILES; do
+    dirname=`basename $file`
+    file=`basename $file`
+    file="$dirname/$file"
+    echo "$file"
+    exit 0;
+    if test -f $file; then 
+      /bin/sed  <$file >$file.new -e \
+  "s/\(.*\"[^ ]*\) [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/\1 ${CURR_DATE}/" 
+
+      if /usr/bin/cmp -s $file $file.new; then
+	rm -f $file.new
+      else
+	mv -f $file.new $file
+        COMMIT_FILES="$COMMIT_FILES $file"
+      fi
+    fi
+  done
+  for file in $cppdefine_FILES; do
+    dirname=`basename $file`
+    file=`basename $file`
+    file="$dirname/$file"
+    if test -f $file; then
+      /bin/sed <$file >$file.new -e \
+  "s/\(#.*\) [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/\1 ${CURR_DATE}/"
+
+      if /usr/bin/cmp -s $file $file.new; then
+	rm -f $file.new
+      else
+	mv -f $file.new $file
+        COMMIT_FILES="$COMMIT_FILES $file"
+      fi
+    fi
+  done
+
+  for file in $datestamp_FILES; do
+    dirname=`basename $file`
+    file=`basename $file`
+    file="$dirname/$file"
+    if test -f $file; then
+      echo ${CURR_DATE} > $file.new
+
+      if /usr/bin/cmp -s $file $file.new; then
+	rm -f $file.new
+      else
+	mv -f $file.new $file
+        COMMIT_FILES="$COMMIT_FILES $file"
+      fi
+    fi
+  done
+  echo "$COMMIT_FILES"  
+  if test -n "$COMMIT_FILES"; then
+    for i in $COMMIT_FILES; do
+    echo "Attempting to commit $i"
+    if ! ${SVN} commit -m "Daily bump." $i; then
+       # If we could not commit the files, indicate failure.
+       RESULT=1
+     fi
+    done
+  fi
+  
+  # Remove the files.
+  for i in $FILES; do
+   rm -rf /tmp/$$/`basename $i`
+  done
+done
+
+/bin/rm -rf /tmp/$$
+exit $RESULT