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On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:41:59 +0000, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
> That does rather sound like a further argument for just not using the
> local count variables at all and just figuring out a monotonic count
> from the SCM (using git-rev-list or whatever) at packaging time.

That sounds rather nice, however I am not sure if git easily gives you
such a number. I know that mercurial does.

spaetz