Re: [Monotone-devel] package_revision.txt getting "unknown" when it shouldn't?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:48:12PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> I noticed the addition of package_revision.txt, and thought that was a
> great idea, and was at the same time a bit disappointed at the way it
> was handled.  I thought the idea would be that a distribution (made
> with "make dist", for example) would carry the revision information
> with it, so a compile outside of a monotone work directory would still
> be identified with information about the place in history it comes
> from.

Sure.

> The attached change does that.  If noone complains, I'll commit it
> tomorrow evening.

Only problem I see is that I'd like some extra message written into
the --full-version if we were unable to regenerate it at build time;
right now it can't possibly be stale information (unless someone is
editing files _while_ building), but in principle someone could
download a distribution, make some local changes, build it, and
--full-version would show no sign.

Also, some comment on what's going on in those build rules would be
nice, it took me some puzzling to figure it out :-).

-- Nathaniel

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