From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `about-emacs' - what about the revno? Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:20:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87pqwzrjot.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <83occmlogo.fsf@gnu.org> <834oeckqv3.fsf@gnu.org> <83wrr8j8g5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283196091 1507 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2010 19:21:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:21:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 21:21:30 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq9v6-0001K4-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:21:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33221 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq9v5-00053t-6X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:21:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60137 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq9uq-00051e-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:21:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq9up-0003D9-0O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq9uo-0003Co-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq9uj-00013B-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:21:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 83.38.73.98 ([83.38.73.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:21:05 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 83.38.73.98 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:21:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.38.73.98 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hTlzbODIkJ+jFuTKyeIAGesNZ+k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:129447 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Actually, in the trunk we don't need anything but the revno, right? As far as it does not change, as it did on the past... > So the question is how to find the revno of the trunk from which the > current branch branched, right? How is it useful to know the common ancestor with the trunk? Does it help when the user is working with a branch containing local commits, or with the clone of a feature branch? [snip]