[Lazarus] How is the versions info in the IDE worked out?

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 13-4-2013 19:25, Frank Church wrote:
> 
> I compiled the Lazarus using FPC 2.6.0 and the fixes branch of Lazarus.
> When I do a version check the Lazarus version is version is 1.0.9 and
> the svn revision is 40800, but the output displayed from fpcup says
> 40759. Shouldn't the svn revision be 40759?

FYI: please note that fpcup show the "branch" revision (the revision of
e.g. the Lazarus trunk branch) as well as the repository-wide revision,
which is always the same or higher (there can be commits in other
branches that push that revision number).