_DATE__, version string, and distros

[Hal Murray]

>> Maybe git can handle that case.  If so, I need a lesson.
> Have you tried git describe?

I don't see how that does what I want.

I'm looking for something that ignores a file and any commits to that file 
when I do a push.

.gitignore doesn't do what I want.  I need to commit something so I can 
update the last-commit time stamp, but I don't want that junk to get pushed 
back where anybody else will see it.


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