Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files

[Kai Großjohann]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On 8 May 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> 
>> With a simple timestamp in the file, we can avoid a lot
>> of false bug reporting.
> 
> I don't think there's a lot of false bug reporting.  In fact, I
> can't remember any significant number of reports whose reason was an
> outdated Lisp file.

Every now and then, an issue like this comes up on the Emacs
newsgroups.  But it's not often.

But IMHO it wouldn't hurt at all to put a line like the following into
every *.el file:

    ;; $Id$

I never needed it, but...

kai
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