Re: Setting the value of `emacs-bzr-version' also from a git checkout

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:06:40 +0200
> From: Dani Moncayo <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>, 
>       Emacs development discussions <address@hidden>
> 
> >> Of course, but that would require the user to have bzr installed, just
> >> to get the revnos from the revids.
> >
> > Emacs developers and maintainers already have bzr installed.
> 
> But there are probably many people (like myself) who would like use
> only git for all version control tasks.  And that's already possible.
> What I want to do now is something very simple: getting the bzr revnos
> out of the git notes, in order to produce binaries which included both
> the revno and the revid.

The bzr revision information is for the maintainers to be able to
correlate reported problems with Emacs development.  For that purpose,
having the revision-id is enough.

As I said, if the revision numbers are also available, that is
better.  But it's not a requirement, and I have no idea why would a
user need to know the revision number.