From a3af5d93a34518dda96cd9f7359f9ba5b2cda21d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Anvin <hpa@tazenda.sc.orionmulti.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:48:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Only commit version if necessary

---
 release.sh | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
index 288ae77..f1a83a0 100755
--- a/release.sh
+++ b/release.sh
@@ -17,8 +17,11 @@ releasedir=$PACKAGE-$release
 GIT_DIR=`cd "${GIT_DIR-.git}" && pwd`
 export GIT_DIR
 
-echo $release > version
-cg-commit -m 'Update version for release'
+echo $release > version.new
+if ! cmp -s version version.new ; then
+  mv -f version.new version
+  cg-commit -m 'Update version for release' version
+fi
 rm -f "$GIT_DIR"/refs/tags/$releasetag
 cg-tag $releasetag