Subject: Re: bug#8054: 24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:06:04 -0500

Chong Yidong wrote:

>> Here's a patch to define an `emacs-bzr-version' during dumping and
>> include it in bug reports.
>
> I think this would need the branch name too, in order to be useful.

Really? At present, emacs-bzr-version will contain something like:

106501 [email-masked]

So it's not just a revision number. The second bit is "a globally unique
identifier for the revision so that it can be referred to without
ambiguity".

But it's trivial to add eg parent_location from branch.conf, if you
really think this is necessary.