On one of my machines I run an Emacs that I build from a clone of the Savannah Git mirror. Bug reports created with this build don't seem to contain any equivalent to emacs-bzr-version, even though such information is readily available and presumably useful for diagnostic purposes. For example, the only version information in this buffer is "GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of 2013-09-26", while in my Cygwin shell I can see the latest commit, and of course from there it's trivial to find the corresponding Bazaar revno: ~/emacs2.git [6244] $ git remote -v origin git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git (fetch) origin git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git (push) ~/emacs2.git [6245] $ git log | head commit 8242d7ac11b16015cbc1f6de3780d6df87d2d72e Author: Tassilo Horn Date: Thu Sep 26 21:05:50 2013 +0200 * doc-view.el (doc-view-reset-zoom-level): New command. (doc-view-mode-map): Remap text-scale-adjust bindings to doc-view zoom commands (bug#15466). In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of 2013-09-26 on myhost Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --with-w32 --prefix=/home/josh' Important settings: value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. mouse-yank-primary: No selection is available Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel w32-common-fns disp-table w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process gfilenotify w32 multi-tty emacs)