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jml opened this issue Mar 3, 2016 · 0 comments
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Include comment in generated files saying how they were generated #219

jml opened this issue Mar 3, 2016 · 0 comments
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jml commented Mar 3, 2016

It'd be great if files generated by cabal2nix included a comment at the top saying exactly how you could regenerate this file in an unambiguous way.

e.g.

# This file automatically generated with cabal2nix vX.Y.Z::
#     cabal2nix something.cabal

This would make resolving diffs much easier.
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