Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Newbie - don't quite understand tagging method

[Robert Anderson]

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From: Alan Chandler <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Newbie - don't quite understand
tagging method

>On Wednesday 26 November 2003 23:56, Robert Anderson wrote:
>...
>> It is
>> usually better to add inline taglines directly into your source
>> files when possible.  
>
>The only place I can find reference to this is inside the file 
>"=tagging-method" in the {arch} directory.  It uses the notation
>
>"<PUNCT> arch-tag: <STRING>"
>
>What precisely does <PUNCH> mean?

<PUNCT> (not <PUNCH>) means punctuation.  Typically a comment
indicator.

  I assume not the literal characters, but 
>rather some set of punctuation marks?

Yeah, just a comment marker.

>What terminates the string? a newline?

Potentially.  I don't think it has to have one.  I'm not sure
either way.

>The text mentions "near" the top or bottom of the file - how near?

Some number of bytes.  Just make it the last line in the file.

A pretty good template is:

echo "# arch-tag: `uuidgen`" >> file.sh

etc.