Subject: Re: bug#22083: 25.0.50; hg: adding tag enhances the rev, modeline does not reflect

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 17:46:49 +0200

On 12/04/2015 05:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> RCS does.  SRC is just RCS in disguise, so it has them as well.

All right, then. But are they used often?

Branches are a well-used feature in Git. If the majority of users of a 
different VCS X are not aware of branches, and don't use them, showing 
the current branch everywhere might not be very useful.

> The revision number for a VCS that has it.  Something close, like the
> output of "git describe", for those that don't.

'git describe' output can be fairly long (e.g. 1.11.0-55-gegegege), and, 
for one, I'm not very comfortable with it (how useful exactly is it to 
know that the branch is XY commits ahead of the latest tag?).

Maybe we should make a poll.