Parallel to bug 407319, which was only fixed on CVS for date stamps.

Stealing, hope you don't mind!

I think this would be super helpful for lots of reasons, not least of all Talos. Thinking about other apps a bit, each could implement something similar in their own application.ini for however many repositories they need. But perhaps we could put a mozilla-central revision into platform.ini ? Then apps using XULRunner/The Platform need only specify their own repo's in application.ini.

This would help a lot when finding possible culprits for regressions. Note also bug 448155.

Comment on attachment 338238 [details] [diff] [review] put changeset id and repo URL in application.ini >+SOURCE_STAMP = $(shell hg identify -i $(topsrcdir)) 1) Use := to avoid calling out to this several times 2) Redirect stderr to /dev/null so that a tarball build (or RPM build, or whatever) doesn't show an unnecessary error message? >diff --git a/browser/app/application.ini b/browser/app/application.ini >+#ifdef MOZ_SOURCE_REPO >+SourceRepository=@MOZ_SOURCE_REPO@ >+#endif >+SourceStamp=@MOZ_SOURCE_STAMP@ Need an ifdef for SourceStamp too, in case someone's building from a tarball. r=me with those changes

Made the changes that bsmedberg suggested, and added a little sed s/^ssh:/http:/ on the repo path, just to make that nicer. I tested this with a hg repo and with moving my .hg dir out of the way, and both ways looked good. I'm going to land this version of the patch.

Pushed: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9fec6819ebe8

Sexy.