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> However I would like to see some git magic to happen and
> when I click window about I would get date of the last commit
> and commit ID. I sometimes forget to pull before make.
> The compilation date is also nice feature.

The tricky part is deciding if a "git pull" causes a rebuild on its
own.  If you tweak the docs, do you get a new executable?  Also, what
happens if you're building a tarball that doesn't have git info?

We used to put cvs revisions in our files, but we've stripped them all
out as a "bad idea" (despite the git conversion).

Note that the About window *does* have the release version (20140316
for example) for released versions.

Alternately, we could commit a "datestamp" every night, so that
there's always a new source file to build...