version-info request

[John Arbash Meinel]

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guerinp at magic.fr wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use bzr version-info to produce a include file contaning the Revison
> number and Revision Id.
> This is available only on the last revison commited.
> Is is possible to do the same for a particular revision (--revision
> option) to rebuild this include file ?
> 
> Kind regards
> Patrice.
> 
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If you do "bzr branch -r XXX" then you'll have a branch at that
particular snapshot to regenerate the file.

However, you're right that "bzr revert -r XXX && bzr version-info" would
not be correct.

As for adding a '--revision' flag, that would be possible. It would
conflict with some of the other ideas like "--check-clean", since you
are assuming everything is clean versus a specific revision.

My feeling is that it makes more sense to actually get the tree at a
particular revision (via branch/pull --overwrite/uncommit &
revert/hypothetical update -r) rather than adding the flag to
'version-info'. That said, it probably wouldn't be very hard to do.

John
=:->

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