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On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 16:23, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Why would it hurt particularly to undo the version-headers-change ?

With RCS, for example, VC uses the version header to determine the file
version and file state, as displayed in the mode line.  If you undo the
version header change, save and revisit, VC will show a wrong version,
and it might think that the file is locked when in fact it isn't, etc.