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Re: [Bug-gnulib] serial numbers in .m4 files: are they still useful?
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Karl Berry |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] serial numbers in .m4 files: are they still useful? |
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Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:29:24 -0400 |
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.
As it happens, I proposed using that (well, $Id$) in the past (for other
reasons), but got shot down because the sources are moved around to
different revision systems and hence the checkin version varies.
To get around this, a datestamp (YYYYMMDD.HHMM or some such) could be
used, updated automatically with time-stamp.el or similar. This is done
for texinfo.tex, mkinstalldirs, and many other scripts these days.
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