include: Improve doxygen text on SDL_GetRevisionNumber().

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Ryan C. Gordon 2021-10-23 14:38:32 -04:00
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@ -153,10 +153,20 @@ extern DECLSPEC const char *SDLCALL SDL_GetRevision(void);
* Obsolete function, do not use.
*
* When SDL was hosted in a Mercurial repository, and was built carefully,
* this would return the revision number that the build was created from.
* This number was not reliable for several reasons, but more importantly,
* SDL is now hosted in a git repository, which does not offer numbers at
* all, only hashes. This function only ever returns zero now. Don't use it.
* this would return the revision number that the build was created from. This
* number was not reliable for several reasons, but more importantly, SDL is
* now hosted in a git repository, which does not offer numbers at all, only
* hashes. This function only ever returns zero now. Don't use it.
*
* Before SDL 2.0.16, this might have returned an unreliable, but non-zero
* number.
*
* \deprecated Use SDL_GetRevision() instead; if SDL was carefully built, it
* will return a git hash.
*
* \returns zero, always, in modern SDL releases.
*
* \sa SDL_GetRevision
*/
extern SDL_DEPRECATED DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetRevisionNumber(void);