+2011-08-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+ git-version-gen: correct the advice in a comment
+ * build-aux/git-version-gen: Correct comment.
+ Don't recommend to list .tarball-version in .gitignore.
+
2011-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
base64: fix off-by-one buffer size bug
#!/bin/sh
# Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2011-07-31.12; # UTC
+scriptversion=2011-08-11.12; # UTC
# Copyright (C) 2007-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# files to pick up a version string change; and leave it stale to
# minimize rebuild time after unrelated changes to configure sources.
#
-# It is probably wise to add these two files to .gitignore, so that you
-# don't accidentally commit either generated file.
+# As with any generated file in a VC'd directory, you should add
+# /.version to .gitignore, so that you don't accidentally commit it.
+# .tarball-version is never generated in a VC'd directory, so needn't
+# be listed there.
#
# Use the following line in your configure.ac, so that $(VERSION) will
# automatically be up-to-date each time configure is run (and note that