Re: emacs-repository-version not defined when cloned with mercurial

[Sven Joachim]

On 2019-08-09 13:24 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:

> On 8/9/19 8:40 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Any change to tell emacs to use the mercurial hash tag?
>
> Sorry, it's not clear what you're asking for here. If you'd like to
> write and debug the feature it sounds like it'd be a good thing to add
> to Emacs, though I wouldn't expect it to appear unless a
> Mercurial-using developer takes the initiative to develop it since it
> should be needed only by developers of Emacs.

It might actually be a bit confusing to them if mercurial revision IDs
are included in bug reports, since those do not exist in the git
repository.  And I have not found a way to get the original git SHA1
back, at least it is not reported in "hg log --debug".

Cheers,
       Sven