On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:

OK Luigi,
but wouldn't it be simple to "hardcode" the real revision number string
into the source automatically?

Alan

If a user does a check out, ie

svn checkout --username anonsvn https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex/trunk

then the revision can be calculated.

But with svn export there is no revision.

So, to be sure, we hardcoded a revision number in beta.

We also tend to avoid these

$Id: README 37077 2015-04-27 18:01:36Z karl $

line in sources, because when we synchronized with TL they make a lot of false positives.

luigi