From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: A little suggestion Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:23:27 +0900 Message-ID: <874on0n6c0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <4B4315DB.9090302@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262690058 17393 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2010 11:14:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:14:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 12:14:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from terminus-est.gnu.org ([66.92.78.210] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NS7MY-0007FO-KP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:14:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NS7MZ-0005r6-1n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:14:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NS7MO-0005pZ-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:14:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NS7MK-0005lc-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:13:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33112 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NS7MJ-0005lQ-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:13:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:59761) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NS7MJ-0007G8-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:13:55 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6523B1537B2; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:13:47 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BDB971A33D7; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:23:27 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <4B4315DB.9090302@alice.it> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 1444e28f1a3d XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:119427 Archived-At: Angelo Graziosi writes: > Why, in the development stage, not adding the revision number? i.e.: > > "GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 rev. 99259..." Revision numbers are not globally defined in bzr; they mean different things in different branches. There is a global revision ID, but it's typically at least 40 characters long, sometimes a fair amount more.