Re: [Monotone-devel] head selector

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:55:29PM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there an easy way to select the head version of a branch? I recall that 
> this has been discussed earlier on the list, but within a different context 
> (update). However, I want to use it for diff'ing:

There are a lot of places that a head selector would be really useful.
If someone showed up with a patch with docs and tests, I'd probably
apply it...

(There's a patch in the mailing list archives, that could possibly be
cleaned up some, not sure (though all the selector code is rather ugly
ATM), but probably works; doesn't have the test/docs, though.)

I'm less interested in Richard's version of h:, that works on an
arbitrary set of revisions, honestly; it seems useful only for
automation, where you already have access to 'automate
erase_ancestors', and it uses up the letter 'h' without being nearly
so convenient for command-line use.  But I'll listen to arguments...

-- Nathaniel

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