Re: PDF filenames - include release designation ?

[Ryan Young <ryangyoung -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Margaret Cekis <margaret -dot- cekis -at- comcast -dot- net>
wrote:

> Monique:
>
> One company where I worked that included documentation in the product's
> Bill
> of materials used a 32-character code on every document that incorporated
> the product, the software version, the document version, and the release
> date. It wasn't part of the file name, but everything was cross-referenced
> to it, and that number appeared on the title page, and the footers of the
> rest of the document.


This made me remember that we briefly had a process that added the git
commit hash to the title page of PDFs (ie,  3726554c...). You could append
that to the filenames to track exactly what changes are in each document.
(But that might be what you meant by "doc revision designation.")
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