From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22083: 25.0.50; hg: adding tag enhances the rev, modeline does not reflect Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 19:54:25 +0200 Message-ID: <5661D351.2080700@yandex.ru> References: <87h9jzy70u.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <566103DA.2050901@yandex.ru> <83610eioei.fsf@gnu.org> <56617BDD.5040605@yandex.ru> <83oae6gugl.fsf@gnu.org> <5661A6A3.2020108@yandex.ru> <83k2ougtcr.fsf@gnu.org> <5661AE2C.6040605@yandex.ru> <83io4egs1r.fsf@gnu.org> <5661AF82.5050404@yandex.ru> <83egf2gr77.fsf@gnu.org> <5661B569.7010700@yandex.ru> <83d1umgpka.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449251726 20414 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2015 17:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 17:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 22083@debbugs.gnu.org, oub@mat.ucm.es To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 18:55:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uZc-0003ub-0o for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:55:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42181 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uZa-0007oc-VH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:55:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uZY-0007nf-81 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:55:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uZT-0000Pj-8d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:55:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49612) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uZT-0000Pd-5P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:55:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uZS-0003EF-Pr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:55:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Dmitry Gutov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 22083 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 22083-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B22083.144925167212361 (code B ref 22083); Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22083) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Dec 2015 17:54:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39320 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uYy-0003DJ-9t for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:54:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:33896) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uYv-0003DA-Ju for 22083@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:54:30 -0500 Original-Received: by wmvv187 with SMTP id v187so85760815wmv.1 for <22083@debbugs.gnu.org>; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 09:54:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Gz2TV7Kk/O6G0dHbppfxhhNe4XCi8vs+jRfdxjd0gHc=; b=lqbCG2AB+IeEeAXgAvgoc/uawSIAuMuLoMNkGTd/LqeRaN2C5GutKcVsNw0FaP+1wc x/xnaxVk7fe91xvhjpys0nZJp6b5hH7Vb/JarktwfXT9w7XfAdN6BsMul5rfXWQiQKqD 4vacnqvi3R5wNadVgZBPOZ2+5mMok6+qrME5xJTVsFVR8mZFP/8ZuGxCPSqCROkjdQSn 3SOSGxb5/9CnoSmLSSzL1Gd4hLdrDIRMXxCukMkgBc3UVvaBkTO0o6fpLlz7XJOg5XZ8 oDHEQYHOZWKGjdlhrIZmhpR713FU33X+h6JeDUi/Wi3SJ9wzk7m9eEJyvD+M60GHnFmH h14g== X-Received: by 10.28.215.211 with SMTP id o202mr6247148wmg.85.1449251668696; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 09:54:28 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [10.9.0.103] (nat.webazilla.com. [78.140.128.228]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id l20sm4478116wmd.20.2015.12.04.09.54.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 04 Dec 2015 09:54:27 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/42.0 In-Reply-To: <83d1umgpka.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:109608 Archived-At: On 12/04/2015 06:13 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I don't know. But with RCS, the branch and the revision are the same > thing, i.e. the revision number also encodes the branch. So it isn't > important really. (Same with CVS.) Ok. It will be important if we try to redefine vc-default-mode-line-string to return backend:branch:revision. > I think all the 3 of the modern dVCSes have branches as very important > feature and the users are aware of them. Then we should try showing them. At first, maybe instead of the revision numbers. >> 'git describe' output can be fairly long (e.g. 1.11.0-55-gegegege) > > We could lose the gegegege part. gegegege can be immediately useful (one can pass it to 'git show', etc). It's the preceding part that doesn't look particularly useful to me. > There's nothing else in Git that's comparable to a revision number, I > think. That's only if you expect the revision identifier to be a number. I don't see a lot of reasons to do that.