From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A little suggestion Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:26:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87d41okzub.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <4B4315DB.9090302@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262736801 16883 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 00:13:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:13:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs , Angelo Graziosi To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 01:13:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSJWM-0004ut-0L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:13:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSJWK-0006YF-N2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:13:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSGvi-0004H1-53 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:27:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSGvd-0004DX-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:27:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54703 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSGvc-0004DQ-RN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:27:01 -0500 Original-Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr ([150.140.141.169]:50949) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSGvb-0006Ox-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:27:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B0A7EB4932; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:26:54 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711DF44FE0; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:26:59 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Original-Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VYNJlaq45dl4; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:26:59 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp-94-64-203-191.home.otenet.gr [94.64.203.191]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CA444FDF; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:26:59 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o05LQhkm070001 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:26:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Original-Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o05LQdAN069972; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:26:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:40:36 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119477 Archived-At: On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:40:36 +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Angelo Graziosi > wrote: >> In Emacs, Help | About Emacs, there is written: >> >> "GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 2.18.3) >> =A0of 2010-01-05 on..." >> >> Why, in the development stage, not adding the revision number? i.e.: >> >> "GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 rev. 99259..." >> >> In GCC, for example, this happens. > > I wonder if it is possible? Is it well defined? > > Perhaps the beginning and ending time of the checkout could be used > instead? But I wonder if they are available either. A revision number like 2100 is *not* well-defined in a DVCS. But there is a revision identifier that includes a hash we could probably use: % keramida@kobe:/bzr/emacs/gker$ bzr log --limit 1 --show-ids . % ------------------------------------------------------------ % revno: 99248 % revision-id: eliz@gnu.org-20100102213336-hnnaav0wq0al1gni % ... The `revision-id' value is arguably something that may be useful to have in `M-x emacs-version' output. At least for non-release builds of Emacs.