From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `about-emacs' - what about the revno? Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:27:44 +0300 Message-ID: <834oeckqv3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83occmlogo.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283188476 29768 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2010 17:14:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:14:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 19:14:34 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 1Oq7wH-00058F-01 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:14:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq7wG-0002uP-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:14:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58242 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq7B2-0007Lt-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:25:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq7B1-0003ua-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:45264) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq7B0-0003uL-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:25:43 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L7Z00L0045PHA00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:25:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.202.93]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L7Z00KQ74AQ66G0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:25:39 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:129437 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:41:28 +0200 > > 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. The answer to 2 is "bzr version-info", it accepts options that define the format in which to produce the output. Unfortunately, in a bound branch it hits the network. Maybe we should ask Bazaar developers to add a --local switch.