Re: Automatic set-serial?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Reuben,

* Reuben Thomas wrote on Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:36:44PM CET:
> The simplest thing seems to be to set the "ident" attribute on all the .m4
> files, and change the line:
> 
> #serial nn
> 
> to
> 
> #$Id$
> 
> which then gets expanded to the commit (i.e. blob) ID of the last commit in
> each case.
> 
> They're not monotonically increasing, but that doesn't seem to be important;
> they are (pretty much guaranteed to be) unique in the history of any one
> file.

The serial number needs to be a simple number.  And aclocal does
consider higher numbers as newer than lower ones.

Cheers,
Ralf