File revision info with leightweight checkout?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Torsten Bronger wrote:
> With a leightweight checkout, do I have easy (=local) access to the
> revision number of a particular file?

No.  Lightweight checkouts store the revision id, but they don't provide
any historical data.  So they can't determine what revno is associated
with that revision-id.

Lightweight checkouts should be used only when you have fast access to
historical data.  So the branch that you check out should be on a LAN or
local disk.

So easy != local.

> I ask because my Emacs
> doesn't print a revision number in the mode line on a lightweight
> checkout, and I don't know whether I should report that.

It is always a bug if the behavior of lighweight checkouts is different
from heavyweight checkouts.  But I don't know what the Emacs mode does
with heavyweight checkouts.

Aaron
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