Re: A little suggestion

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-01-05 11:40 +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Angelo Graziosi
> <address@hidden> 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