[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Remove old VCSs from version.sh

[Alex Converse]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:05:24 (CET), Alex Converse wrote:
>
>> Can you give an example of where this snapshot_version is currently used?
>
> In 'my' packaging for debian.
>
>> The original documentation for snapshot_version says:
>>
>> Read revision string from the file snapshot_version if available.
>> This will be used by daily snapshots without Subversion metadata.
>>
>> It is in the group of revision probes that get prefixed with SVN-r
>> which implies that if it is still used it is at best wrong.
>
> Seems largely correct, but of course needs to be reworded to be
> SVN-agnostic. It is basically needed to override foreign, bad, or
> missing VCS information.
>

Don't we already have a VERSION file for when there is no VCS info?