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25.0.50; hg: adding tag enhances the rev, modeline does not reflect

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Message #50 received at 22083 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 22083 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, oub <at> mat.ucm.es
Subject: Re: bug#22083: 25.0.50;
 hg: adding tag enhances the rev, modeline does not reflect
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:27:41 +0200

> Cc: 22083 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, oub <at> mat.ucm.es
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 19:54:25 +0200
> 
> >> 'git describe' output can be fairly long (e.g. 1.11.0-55-gegegege)
> >
> > We could lose the gegegege part.
> 
> gegegege can be immediately useful (one can pass it to 'git show', etc). 
> It's the preceding part that doesn't look particularly useful to me.

If the SHA1 sum is deemed more important, we can only show that.

> > There's nothing else in Git that's comparable to a revision number, I
> > think.
> 
> That's only if you expect the revision identifier to be a number. I 
> don't see a lot of reasons to do that.

The only reason is to be compatible with other VCSes.

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