From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `about-emacs' - what about the revno?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:45:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3szra8f.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvsk1vkb46.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Maybe we should try and provide the revno of the common ancestor on
>>> the trunk.
>> That information only makes sense for mirrors of trunk.
>> The revision-id is the real info.
>
> The revision-id from a local branch only exists in that local branch, so
> it's useless to anybody else than the owner. I.e. it's not "the real
> info" we need.
So for what we use the revision information? How it helps to know which
was the last commit from trunk included on a build? What's the use case?
AFAIU the info is for knowing the source code used for the build, and
its main usage is for bug reports.
Having the revision-id you can test if the sources comes straight from
Savannah. If it doesn't, the bug is his business, as we have no way of
figuring out what changes his build contains.
A revision-id uniquely identifies the state of a branch, the revision
number does not. For what we need a number that may or may not
correspond to some commit on `trunk'?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-30 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-28 15:38 `about-emacs' - what about the revno? Drew Adams
2010-08-28 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-28 16:05 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-28 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-28 16:34 ` Jason Rumney
2010-08-28 17:12 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-28 19:06 ` Christoph
2010-08-29 4:56 ` Teemu Likonen
2010-08-30 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-30 16:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-08-30 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-30 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-30 19:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-30 22:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-31 6:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-08-31 10:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-31 10:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-08-31 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-31 20:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-09-01 6:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-31 14:02 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-31 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-01 6:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-01 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-01 7:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-01 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-31 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-30 17:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-30 17:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-08-30 22:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-30 22:45 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2010-08-31 8:22 ` Stefan Monnier
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