changeset in /hg/icedtea6: Add IcedTea version to java -version.

[Gary Benson]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2008/11/7 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>:
> > Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > > changeset 829a4250db62 in /hg/icedtea6
> > > details: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6?cmd=changeset;node=829a4250db62
> > > description:
> > >       Add IcedTea version to java -version.
> > [snip]
> > > +     if [ -e $(abs_top_srcdir)/.hg ]; then \
> > > +       revision="-r`(cd $(srcdir); $(HG) tip --template '{rev}')`" ; \
> > > +     fi ; \
> > > +     icedtea_version="$(PACKAGE_VERSION)$${revision}" ; \
> > > +     sed -i "s#IcedTea6#IcedTea6 $${icedtea_version}#" openjdk/jdk/make/common/shared/Defs.gmk
> >
> > The number reported by '{rev}' is only meaningful within your own
> > repository.  Anyone mind if I change this to '{node|short}'?
> 
> Well the idea was that these would be the revision numbers of the
> IcedTea6 and IcedTea7 repositories, in the same vein as the
> Subversion numbers used by gcc.  Do they break in some awful way
> with Mercurial?  I can see there are issues if you have your own
> repository with lots of local commits but the intention was for them
> to be used against the main repositories.

I'm not 100% sure but I think the revision numbers are in date order,
so if someone pushes a bunch of branch commits that interleave with
the main trunk then the numbers will change.

Cheers,
Gary

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