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

[Glenn Morris]

Dani Moncayo wrote:

> Actually that patch was lacking a change in loadup.el:  The call to
> `emacs-bzr-get-version' now has to pass `t' in the EXTERNAL argument,
> to open the possibility of asking the external version control program
> (bzr or git) if the "internal" method fails.

The existing bzr implementation intentionally does not call any external
executable during building Emacs. (I have no opinion on/interest in what
any git version should do.)