Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 12 May 2001, Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?= wrote:

> >> With a simple timestamp in the file, we can avoid a lot
> >> of false bug reporting.
> > 
> > I don't think there's a lot of false bug reporting.  In fact, I
> > can't remember any significant number of reports whose reason was an
> > outdated Lisp file.
> 
> Every now and then, an issue like this comes up on the Emacs
> newsgroups.  But it's not often.
> 
> But IMHO it wouldn't hurt at all to put a line like the following into
> every *.el file:
> 
>     ;; $Id$

Past experience shows that this makes all kinds of trouble for Emacs
maintenance.