Display revno, not just version number

[Matt Nordhoff]

Loggerhead now displays its version number in pages (see bug #370155), but it would be useful if it displayed the revno as well, if it's running from a branch.

bzrlib's revno might be useful too.

Code for this could probably be stolen from bzr's version command.

I've had a few ideas for how exactly to display it:

> My first idea was to make the line at the bottom something like:
>
> Loggerhead <abbr title="r123 (2009-06-25) revid:xxx">1.10</abbr> ...
>
> It might make sense to do it like edge.launchpad does, something like
> one of these:
>
> Loggerhead 1.10 (r123) ...
> Loggerhead 1.10 (<abbr title="$revid (2009-06-25)">r123</abbr>)
> Loggerhead 1.10 (<abbr title="2009-06-25 ($revid)">r123</abbr>)

[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

Bonus points if the revno links to the loggerhead revision on launchpad ;)

[Matt Nordhoff (mnordhoff)]

The revision may not be on lp:loggerhead, and it'd be rude for Loggerhead instances everywhere to probe Launchpad to check.

AIUI, Launchpad runs a custom branch of Loggerhead. I know I do.

In my case, my Loggerhead install is at ~/loggerhead. Its parent is /srv/bzr/loggerhead/cheezum, which has its public branch set to http://bzr.mattnordhoff.com/bzr/loggerhead/cheezum/, which happens to be viewable from http://bzr.mattnordhoff.com/loggerhead/loggerhead/cheezum/changes and registered on Launchpad as lp:~mnordhoff/loggerhead/cheezum. It's not really possible to make Loggerhead automatically figure it all out and Do The Right Thing. I guess a configuration option or two could be added, but that would be a lot of trouble for a little link at the bottom of the page... *I* wouldn't mind, but I doubt most users would agree.

It would probably be best to make bzrlib equally configurable, doubling the complication.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 19:19 +0000, Martin Albisetti wrote:
> Bonus points if the revno links to the loggerhead revision on launchpad
> ;)

Why would it? If its running from a branch, link to its own
branch :) :) :)

-Rob

[Matt Nordhoff (mnordhoff)]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 19:19 +0000, Martin Albisetti wrote:
>> Bonus points if the revno links to the loggerhead revision on launchpad
>> ;)
>
> Why would it? If its running from a branch, link to its own
> branch :) :) :)
>
> -Rob

How would it know what URL to give the branch? Some special /+self URL?
The branch might also be viewable from some other URL, causing duplication.
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[Cruz Bishop (cruzjbishop)]

Opened a merge request :)