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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
Cc: 12441@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12441: Acknowledgement (24.2.50; emacs-bzr-version is not reliable)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:32:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsjakh06x.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120914.190259.1021878789905429001.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (Harald Hanche-Olsen's message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:02:59 +0200 (CEST)")

> In emacs-bzr-get-version, in version.el, there seems to be a special
> branch in the cond dealing with lightweight checkouts.  Maybe you could
> just remove that branch? It will only work, and unreliably to boot,
> with a lightweight checkout from a local branch.

Lightweight checkouts of local branches are very common, so we
definitely want to handle them right at least in the "normal" case where
the checkout is showing the tip of the corresponding branch (contrary
to your particular case).


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-14 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-14  9:52 bug#12441: 24.2.50; emacs-bzr-version is not reliable Harald Hanche-Olsen
     [not found] ` <handler.12441.B.134761641913163.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2012-09-14 12:05   ` bug#12441: Acknowledgement (24.2.50; emacs-bzr-version is not reliable) Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-14 16:16     ` Glenn Morris
2012-09-14 17:02       ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-09-14 19:32         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-09-14 23:22           ` bug#12441: emacs-bzr-version is not reliable Glenn Morris
2012-09-15  0:35             ` Glenn Morris
2012-09-15  1:12               ` Glenn Morris
2012-09-14 23:28 ` bug#12441: 24.2.50; " Andy Moreton

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