File-stamp implementation?

[Alan E. Davis]

Some years ago, I had rewritten time-stamp.el as a useful file-stamp
function.  I had a habit of changing filenames during a project, and wished
to preserve a "bread crumb trail" of the previous file names, as well as
the ordinary "Time-stamp".  At the time, I was sufficiently up to speed on
Elisp to make the needed changes, and it worked fantastically.  Ths very
idea of writing customization templates, along with the basic changes
themselves was discouraging for one of my limited programming abilities.

Beneath the Time-stamp, was "File-stamp:" template.  I also kept a running
list of the previous file names in the header.  First:

File-stamp: <>

   then

Previously:

Actually, the most important thing was the File-stamp: entry.  One previous
file version would be useful, and the previous name before a major change
would also be useful.

Does anyone have such a utility?  I

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