GNU bug report logs - #75398
30.0.93; files.el documentation refers to "ITS-id" version control

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Message #25 received at 75398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org, esr <at> thyrsus.com
Cc: stefankangas <at> gmail.com, 75398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75398: 30.0.93;
 files.el documentation refers to "ITS-id" version control
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:27:49 +0200

> Cc: 75398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:10:43 -0500
> 
> On ITS, the only place to store a version number was (1) in the second
> filename or (2) in the file contents.  When that text was written, was
> there code in Emacs to store a version number in one of those places?

Doesn't look like it, I only see the ".~N~" numerical extensions.

You should be able to see the version of files.el at that commit with
this shell command:

  $ git show e41b2db1da153e3ead4a01cb6e729cb99cad78ae:lisp/files.el

Maybe Eric simply had ITS in mind when wrote the commentary, though.

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