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: Re: A little suggestion Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:24:11 +0900 Message-ID: <87skakkm2c.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <4B4315DB.9090302@alice.it> <874on0n6c0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83iqbgcq2d.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262744971 2238 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 02:29:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 02:29:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: angelo.graziosi@alice.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 03:29:23 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 4.50) id 1NSLeC-0006rH-5U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:29:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39646 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSLeA-0004Lp-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSLQA-0008V4-6r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:14:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSLQ5-0008PO-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:14:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57840 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSLQ5-0008P9-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:14:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:53726) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSLQ3-0004Ri-GR; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:14:43 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A207A8212; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:14:36 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4120D1A2EC9; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:24:12 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <83iqbgcq2d.fsf@gnu.org> 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:119489 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > So we could display the global revid as something palatable, if not > exactly short. > > Not that I understand why this would be useful... You can ask bzr to search for it, and if it's not in the Emacs repository, you know the user has local changes, and you can even ask for an exact diff. (You would also need to check bzr status for uncommitted changes.) Seems to me that this is about as useful as the rest of the information generated by M-x report-emacs-bug.