+ miniperl make_patchnum.pl
+
+ perl make_patchnum.pl
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+This program creates the files holding the information
+about locally applied patches to the source code. The created
+files are F<git_version.h> and F<lib/Config_git.pl>.
+
+=head2 F<lib/Config_git.pl>
+
+Contains status information from git in a form meant to be processed
+by the tied hash logic of Config.pm. It is actually optional,
+although -V:git.\* will be uninformative without it.
+
+C<git_version.h> contains similar information in a C header file
+format, designed to be used by patchlevel.h. This file is obtained
+from stock_git_version.h if miniperl is not available, and then
+later on replaced by the version created by this script.
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Yves Orton, Kenichi Ishigaki, Max Maischein
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Same terms as Perl itself.