Re: [Bug-gnulib] serial numbers in .m4 files: are they still useful?

[Derek Robert Price]

Bruno Haible wrote:

> Jim Meyering wrote:
>  
>
> > In gnulib and coreutils, we're considering getting rid of the
> > serial number line in each .m4 file.
> >    
>
> For files which are frequently copied from one package to another, I find
> these serial numbers quite useful: For developers who don't know where
> the master source and CVS can be found, it easily answers the question
> which version of the .m4 files to prefer in a new release.
>
> In similar situations, when dealing with files like "mkinstalldirs" that
> didn't have a serial number in them, it was a real pain for me to detect
> where the master source was and which version was to be considered
> preferrable.
>  

You could always switch to the RCS "$Revision$" keyword now that your 
sources are in CVS.  That wouldn't need to be maintained so manually.

Derek

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