On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 18:16, Sean Sieger <sean.sie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lennart Borgman <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:06, Dani Moncayo <dmonc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Given a concrete (built) Emacs, are there a way to know the bzr > > revision that was used to build it? > > No, currently it is not possible. I have suggested that it should be, > however. And I have added that to my patched version of > Emacs+EmacsW32. (Unfortunately I have not time at the moment to build > that version.) > > Yes, currently it is possible. Open the file in the Emacs distribution > that you'd like to work on. In the mode line, you will see the > Bzr-<revno> you are looking for. > > But I think, Lennart, you gotta use the development branch to see this. > I don't understand why you need the revision number if you're not using > it---it just doesn't make sense to me.
As Eli explained this is not the revision number of the binary. Oh, yes. It makes sense. I provide both the revison number of the development branch and my patched branch.
