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


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnulib] serial numbers in .m4 files: are they still useful?
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:27:59 +0200
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Derek Robert Price wrote:
> >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.

This didn't work, because noone remembered to do a "cvs admin -ko" when
copying "mkinstalldirs" to his other CVS repository. I.e. the versioning
information is erased each time someone copies a file with "$Revision$"
to a new project. This doesn't happen with 'serial' markers.

Bruno





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