Re: [Monotone-devel] head selector

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:21:40 -0700, Nathaniel Smith 
<address@hidden> said:

njs> I'm less interested in Richard's version of h:,

Good, a straight opinion.  I haven't heard it before.

njs> that works on an arbitrary set of revisions, honestly; it seems
njs> useful only for automation,

You're right, the first thing I had in mind was automation.  However,
I've had plenty of use for it myself on the command line, with things
like diff and log.

njs> where you already have access to 'automate erase_ancestors', and
njs> it uses up the letter 'h' without being nearly  so convenient for
njs> command-line use.  But I'll listen to arguments...

I'm not sure what's wrong with the letter 'h', but I'll listen to
arguments.

In message <address@hidden> on Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:24:23 -0700, Nathaniel Smith 
<address@hidden> said:

njs> Oh, forgot to mention, in the mean time you can also use a
njs> workaround:
njs> 
njs> $ alias H='monotone automate heads'
njs> $ monotone diff -r`H branch1` -r`H branch2`
njs> 
njs> Could use some better error checking for when there are multiple
njs> heads, etc., but hey...

OK, that works for branches.  How about wanting to select the
head-most arbitrary cert (that was my primary focus)?

Also, how should Windows users do this?  Does Windows have the same
backtick possibilities?

Cheers,
Richard

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