From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `about-emacs' - what about the revno? Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:41:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83occmlogo.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 1283185078 13443 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2010 16:17:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:17:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 18:17:56 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 1Oq73Q-0007vK-QK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:17:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46049 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq6yX-0000z7-RS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:12:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50755 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq6aE-0007RD-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq6aC-0005Sl-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm2.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.2]:42332) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq6aC-0005SY-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:47:40 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost1.adm.correo ([10.20.102.38]) by IMPaqm2.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 0dxQ1f00G0piX6q3Mfnfeh; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:47:39 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([217.126.152.201]) by IMPmailhost1.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 0fne1f00C4LyPzM1hfneTS; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:47:39 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C45CA660DF; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:41:28 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <83occmlogo.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:57:27 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:129428 Archived-At: > This has come up before, but the discussion was inconclusive (IIRC) > because of 2 reasons: > . revno is not unique: two different branches can have the same > revno for two very different code bases Maybe we should try and provide the revno of the common ancestor on the trunk. I only see two problems with it: 1- you'll probably need Internet access to find this info (might be problematic during a build, for instance). 2- I don't know how to tell Bzr to give me this info. Stefan