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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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In-reply-to: <20010524134600.A78@kendall.sfbr.org> (message from JT Williams
	on Thu, 24 May 2001 13:46:00 -0500)
Subject: Re: CVS revision number in djasm.y
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> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:46:00 -0500
> From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
> 
> I think it will be useful (to me, at least ;-) to include the CVS revision
> number of djasm.y as the djasm `version' number, written into the header
> of the binary and into the SCCS/RCS id strings.  For example, the strings
> written into stub.exe would change from this:
> 
> stub.exe generated from stub.asm by djasm, on Thu May 24 13:19:25 2001
> $Id: stub.asm built 2001-05-24 13:19:25 by djasm $
> @(#) stub.asm built 2001-05-24 13:19:25 by djasm
> 
> to this:
> 
> stub.exe generated from stub.asm by djasm v1.10 on Thu May 24 13:21:34 2001
> $Id: stub.asm built 2001-05-24 13:21:34 by djasm v1.10$
> @(#) stub.asm built 2001-05-24 13:21:34 by djasm v1.10

Beware: adding a $Revision$ tag to djasm.y will have the effect of
changing the version each time you "cvs commit" the file.  That
includes any local commits (in case you, or someone else, has a local
CVS or RCS tree on their machine).  This could easily get in your way
due to spurious diffs that make identical versions look different.  It
could also make an impression that many more versions exist than what
was actually released.

You might be better off with a string that you maintain manually, not
a keyword understood by CVS.