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: Setting the value of `emacs-bzr-version' also from a git checkout Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:37:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83fvs6ra8s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a9is6g2a.fsf@igel.home> <87pprokewg.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83iox2rd75.fsf@gnu.org> <83hacmrc12.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381577858 20579 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2013 11:37:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:37:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 12 13:37:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1VUxVq-0006DU-Dh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:37:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57821 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUxVp-0003nD-VQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60819) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUxVi-0003n5-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUxVc-000884-7l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:49793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUxVb-000880-Vm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MUJ00H00ZYDNK00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:37:22 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MUK00HDR0A5CAA0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:37:19 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164142 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:06:40 +0200 > From: Dani Moncayo > Cc: Stefan Monnier , =D3scar Fuentes ,=20 > =09Emacs development discussions >=20 > >> Of course, but that would require the user to have bzr installed= , just > >> to get the revnos from the revids. > > > > Emacs developers and maintainers already have bzr installed. >=20 > But there are probably many people (like myself) who would like use > only git for all version control tasks. And that's already possibl= e. > What I want to do now is something very simple: getting the bzr rev= nos > out of the git notes, in order to produce binaries which included b= oth > the revno and the revid. The bzr revision information is for the maintainers to be able to correlate reported problems with Emacs development. For that purpose= , having the revision-id is enough. As I said, if the revision numbers are also available, that is better. But it's not a requirement, and I have no idea why would a user need to know the revision number.