version.sh bug?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Vin Shelton writes:
 > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
 > > Vin Shelton writes:
 > >
 > >   > XEmacs 21.5-b28 "fuki"  configured for `i686-pc-cygwin'.
 > >
 > >  Doesn't cygwin use configure and the Unix Makefiles?  Why isn't the
 > >  Mercurial hash present?
 > 
 > Yes, but my build scripts copy all the source files from a repository
 > and deliberately strip the .hg files.  I was going to see how to
 > address this either globally or locally.  ... 'twill happen some day.

Easy pie.  Mike can confirm, but in shell it's basically just

cp version.sh.in version.sh
hg identify -i >> version.sh

Season to taste for your style of script.  The worst that might happen
is you'll get spurious conflicts in version.sh.