From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22083: 25.0.50; hg: adding tag enhances the rev, modeline does not reflect Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:13:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83d1umgpka.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h9jzy70u.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <566103DA.2050901@yandex.ru> <83610eioei.fsf@gnu.org> <56617BDD.5040605@yandex.ru> <83oae6gugl.fsf@gnu.org> <5661A6A3.2020108@yandex.ru> <83k2ougtcr.fsf@gnu.org> <5661AE2C.6040605@yandex.ru> <83io4egs1r.fsf@gnu.org> <5661AF82.5050404@yandex.ru> <83egf2gr77.fsf@gnu.org> <5661B569.7010700@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449245687 14424 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2015 16:14:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 16:14:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 22083@debbugs.gnu.org, oub@mat.ucm.es To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 17:14:37 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a4szp-00031X-GB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:14:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41773 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4szp-00026j-04 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:14:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52117) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4szl-00026e-Ps for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:14:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4szi-0002fb-HV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:14:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49463) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4szi-0002fN-Ej for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:14:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a4szh-0000cd-Qv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:14:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 16:14:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 22083 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 22083-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B22083.14492456062333 (code B ref 22083); Fri, 04 Dec 2015 16:14:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22083) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Dec 2015 16:13:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39171 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a4sz7-0000bZ-Fh for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:13:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:45045) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a4sz5-0000bR-UA for 22083@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:13:24 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NYU00J00CUUHG00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 22083@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:13:22 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NYU00J3XD2AI600@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:13:22 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <5661B569.7010700@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:109597 Archived-At: > Cc: 22083@debbugs.gnu.org, oub@mat.ucm.es > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 17:46:49 +0200 > > On 12/04/2015 05:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > RCS does. SRC is just RCS in disguise, so it has them as well. > > All right, then. But are they used often? I don't know. But with RCS, the branch and the revision are the same thing, i.e. the revision number also encodes the branch. So it isn't important really. (Same with CVS.) > Branches are a well-used feature in Git. If the majority of users of a > different VCS X are not aware of branches, and don't use them, showing > the current branch everywhere might not be very useful. I think all the 3 of the modern dVCSes have branches as very important feature and the users are aware of them. > > The revision number for a VCS that has it. Something close, like the > > output of "git describe", for those that don't. > > 'git describe' output can be fairly long (e.g. 1.11.0-55-gegegege) We could lose the gegegege part. > for one, I'm not very comfortable with it (how useful exactly is it to > know that the branch is XY commits ahead of the latest tag?). There's nothing else in Git that's comparable to a revision number, I think.