[Monotone-devel] List revision IDs without a working copy?

[Steven E. Harris]

First, the question: How can one list the revision IDs within a
monotone database without having a working copy of the tree available?

Now, the motivating scenario. I have a small project that's
accumulated a half dozen revisions. One of my coworkers prepares a
databases, pulls my project over, and now has a database available
with a copy of my work. She now wishes to check out a working copy of
the tree to play with. She doesn't want to work on the latest
revision, though; in fact, she wants the first revision available in
the database.

At first I thought this would be no problem. The "checkout" command
respects a "revision" argument. But how can we inspect the set of
available revisions? I've combed the command reference and can't
figure out how to "log"-like action without first checking out a
working copy -- albeit not the one we're actually looking to fetch. If
the project had thousands of files, fetching that spurious scratch
copy would be huge waste.

I don't mind the long hash strings as revision IDs. It's getting
access to those IDs has me stumped.

-- 
Steven E. Harris