From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Setting the value of `emacs-bzr-version' also from a git checkout Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:58:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87a9is6g2a.fsf@igel.home> <87pprokewg.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83iox2rd75.fsf@gnu.org> <87bo2uhie3.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381575527 32111 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2013 10:58:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:58:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Monnier , Emacs development discussions To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 12 12:58:52 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 1VUwuJ-0006QF-Le for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:58:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57712 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUwuJ-0004f6-BH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 06:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUwuG-0004f1-9E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 06:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUwuF-0005TT-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 06:58:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x22f.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::22f]:62027) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUwuD-0005So-MM; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 06:58:45 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-la0-f47.google.com with SMTP id eo20so4228643lab.20 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 03:58:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=7iMzorG+ftpMTd7EuoINs3dO57z6h0AcXExGDK5YJus=; b=NVMtnVYWrR1TifTbwT5PaNakrFb6jcfG3BrOzx1YaSuQHtRznRJ1TCu3fmti/wy80B i8hXrV6Ja3eDEhumj632pVU0Bg3CcMeCyEAj28SRVLK+KLQRdWkeiqMvG415o14HVMWv TEyvZUaff4CPTsEI+36T6o6pGm96mgdJmnalhzuvC7U5uZqdM/d0Lu0O8iB07jp5Uh6U yr2akol+fjMddS3Ms2CR1KCzla2MPgXYW2yVWg6Qss/ylsfw7zS/HbjMQbTuyIS/NOuz LrJSFJTVISpombpciUeXkD0Ro5TRe6FQaGU3U8+Uri4czZAD3OzR49Q09Dzz03NXMWGI 4bOA== X-Received: by 10.112.158.225 with SMTP id wx1mr946879lbb.37.1381575524360; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 03:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.176.231 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 03:58:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bo2uhie3.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::22f 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:164138 Archived-At: >>> IOW, the revision-id is enough to unequivocally identify the revision >>> in any given branch. >> >> Of course, but that would require the user to have bzr installed, just >> to get the revnos from the revids. That would be too bad, and can be >> easily avoided just by including the revnos in the git notes. > > Why is the *user* interested on getting the revno? For bug reporting, > the revid is perfectly valid (and, as stated before, it is more precise > than the revno.) When I wrote "user" there, I meant "person who wants to build emacs from a git checkout, and doesn't want to have bzr installed". ...because, as I said: >> what I'd like is that "emacs-bzr-version" gave the exact >> same string from an Emacs built from either bzr-trunk or git-master. -- Dani Moncayo