Re: [Gnucap-devel] CMake WIP

[Felix Salfelder]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 11:48:33AM -0400, al davis wrote:
> On Monday 05 August 2013, Felix Salfelder wrote:
> > nothing particular. it's just unnecessary (isn't it?) and
> > must be maintained manually (afaics).
> 
> I guess it depends on what you consider necessary.  I find it 
> very useful.

i'm not saying that it's not useful.

> What is there now (name, date, time, rcs checkin code ....) is 
> there because that is what RCS does.  RCS will do the fields 
> separately too, but $Id$ is so convenient.

is there anything "git log"/"git describe"/"git anythingelse" does not
provide or know about? the history before the git transition is lost,
but intentionally lost...

regards
felix