discuss: is revhistory _that_ needed?
Subject:
Re: is revhistory _that_ needed?
From:
Stephen Darlington ####@####.####
Date:
29 Nov 2003 23:27:46 -0000
Message-Id: <9E9B5CD8-22C3-11D8-A696-0003931E3FF4@zx81.org.uk>
> The way I do this for the (not yet ready) [1. GNU Build System HOWTO]
> is to have the CVS $Log tag in a comment at the end of the .xml file
> and a comment at the top indicating that the version history is at the
> end of the file.
I stopped using CVS tags when I started getting questions about
versions of my HOWTO that I'd never released publicly. Turns out a
number of distributions put the HOWTO's under their own source control
which over-wrote my version number. Probably less of a problem with the
$Log$ tag but not without issues I'd imagine.
Personally I don't care about the revision history in documents I read,
as long as it's fairly recent. I, therefore, have a version number and
date attached to mine.
--> Stephen
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