Re: `about-emacs' - what about the revno?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Drew Adams <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:41:28 +0200
> 
> Maybe we should try and provide the revno of the common ancestor on
> the trunk.  I only see two problems with it:
> 1- you'll probably need Internet access to find this info (might be
>    problematic during a build, for instance).
> 2- I don't know how to tell Bzr to give me this info.

The answer to 2 is "bzr version-info", it accepts options that define
the format in which to produce the output.  Unfortunately, in a bound
branch it hits the network.  Maybe we should ask Bazaar developers to
add a --local switch.