From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Subversion revision number in mode-line Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:27:53 -0700 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <87wsirsncm.fsf@olgas.newt.com> References: <18584.927.181192.891941@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218198543 2758 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2008 12:29:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:29:03 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 14:29:54 2008 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 1KRR6C-0003wL-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:29:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRR5G-0005Az-8L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:28:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRR4y-0004w5-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRR4u-0004sX-8C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50011 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRR4u-0004sF-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34254 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRR4t-00056H-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KRR4j-0002O0-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:28:09 +0000 Original-Received: from h-68-164-85-251.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net ([68.164.85.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:28:09 +0000 Original-Received: from wohler by h-68-164-85-251.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:28:09 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-68-164-85-251.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kv44hFFg0pi/mVJDh9QvG6m/Zww= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:102199 Archived-At: Nick Roberts writes: > In Emacs 22.1, it seems that a buffer visiting a file under SVN > controls displays the the revision number of the last changeset of > which that file was a part. This is also what Subclipse does in > Eclipse. > > In 23.0.60 (current CVS) it appears to display the revision number > of the current tree. That means that, if the working copy is > up-to-date, all files display the same number in the mode-line. > > The former behaviour seems more informative to me. In Subversion lingo, Nick is saying that Emacs is now showing the working revision whereas Subclipse and previous versions of Emacs show the last committed revision. I agree with Nick, it is preferred to show the last committed version. -- Bill Wohler http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD