From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33328: 27.0.50; Extend Emacs bug report Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:00:35 -0500 Message-ID: <12r2ffmv58.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87pnvdgah9.fsf@gmx.de> <87r2fmccbl.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542740405 4231 195.159.176.226 (20 Nov 2018 19:00:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:00:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: 33328@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 20:00:01 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gPBFh-0000w0-70 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 20:00:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPBHn-0003xu-Nh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:02:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42188) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPBGh-0003UR-5K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:01:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPBGg-0006gd-2Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:01:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:33107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPBGf-0006gK-UZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:01:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gPBGf-0003Uo-RI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:01:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:01:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33328 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 33328-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33328.154274045113413 (code B ref 33328); Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:01:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33328) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Nov 2018 19:00:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37365 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gPBGV-0003UH-2z for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:00:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60625) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gPBGT-0003U3-Jh for 33328@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:00:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPBGM-0006SM-5y for 33328@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:00:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57667) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPBGI-0006QL-Bo; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:00:38 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gPBGG-0003Xo-85; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:00:36 -0500 X-Spook: Ciudad Juarez Cartel de Golfo Drug trade fissionable X-Ran: ITa`avo#<_\j:I`0p_Yxn9AP`\H?K+{yA{M=8I?1chKh@M"JmP',1&!J`D^u`HAjoX{4T$ X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87r2fmccbl.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:31:26 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:152581 Archived-At: Michael Albinus wrote: >> Sorry for the slow reply, but given the hash from emacs-repository-version, >> doesn't a command like "git name-rev HASH" give you this information, >> without you needing to store extra information in the Emacs binary? > > Anything goes of course, but is it really a problem? A short string > shouldn't hurt. The code to implement this doesn't seem that small, and seems redundant to me. http://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-diffs/2018-11/msg00072.html > I use this kind of information also in Tramp (see variable > tramp-repository-branch), and it would be an additional burden always to > use call-process for just opening a new debug buffer. I meant, when you get a bug report, if you care which branch it came from, and it isn't obvious from the version number, just use git name-rev to find out. You will presumably be looking at the git log anyway for debugging.