From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Joachim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A little suggestion Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:15:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87bph8ssyq.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> References: <4B4315DB.9090302@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262690168 17758 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2010 11:16:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs , Angelo Graziosi To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 12:16:00 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 1NS7OK-0007wu-9u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:16:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NS7OK-000770-4u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:16:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NS7OB-00075p-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:15:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NS7O6-0006zk-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54789 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NS7O6-0006zV-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:15:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58154) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NS7O5-0007Nf-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:15:46 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Jan 2010 11:15:42 -0000 Original-Received: from p548645AB.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO turtle.gmx.de) [84.134.69.171] by mail.gmx.net (mp052) with SMTP; 05 Jan 2010 12:15:42 +0100 X-Authenticated: #28250155 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19o+XJ9VV1oeU+DPrFQ3r+jRogdgz4zuPMOFMGKMB MRevHeOLzc3LhG Original-Received: by turtle.gmx.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D5AAA35545; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:15:41 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:40:36 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.58 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:119428 Archived-At: On 2010-01-05 11:40 +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Angelo Graziosi > wrote: >> In Emacs, Help | About Emacs, there is written: >> >> "GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 2.18.3) >>  of 2010-01-05 on..." >> >> Why, in the development stage, not adding the revision number? i.e.: >> >> "GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 rev. 99259..." >> >> In GCC, for example, this happens. > > > I wonder if it is possible? Certainly, you just need to run "bzr revno" during the build and dump the result into Emacs. > Is it well defined? Not very well, if you have local commits it can be misleading. And there is the problem that not all changes lead to re-dumping Emacs. Running "bzr revno" at bug commit time will not always work either. Sven