On 12/9/20 7:46 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
It comes from Gnulib's git-version-gen and GNUmakefile.I'm not defending it. In fact, it annoys me. But I didn't spend the time to find another way to record the release version.
Perhaps we should change git-version-gen and GNUmakefile to put this version-number stuff into a file name that doesn't start with '.'. (I don't know why there are two such files now.)