Update docstring of emacs-repository-get-version.

* version.el (emacs-repository-get-version): Update docstring.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index bf5f60db13e..cce686b5f1d 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2015-01-17  Ulrich Müller  <ulm@gentoo.org>
+
+        * version.el (emacs-repository-get-version): Update docstring.
+
 2015-01-17  Ivan Shmakov  <ivan@siamics.net>
 
         * url/url-cookie.el (url-cookie-write-file): Let-bind print-length
diff --git a/lisp/version.el b/lisp/version.el
index 43778739ba6..1837cbf0a85 100644
--- a/lisp/version.el
+++ b/lisp/version.el
@@ -105,10 +105,8 @@ this reports on the current state of the sources, which may not
 correspond to the running Emacs.
 
 Optional argument DIR is a directory to use instead of
-`source-directory'.  Optional argument EXTERNAL non-nil means to
-maybe ask the VCS itself, if the sources appear to be under
-version control.  If `force', always ask.  the VCS. Otherwise
-only ask the VCS if we cannot find any information ourselves."
+`source-directory'.  Optional argument EXTERNAL is ignored and is
+retained for compatibility."
   (or dir (setq dir source-directory))
   (cond ((file-directory-p (expand-file-name ".git" dir))
          (message "Waiting for git...")