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

[Steven E. Harris]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> writes:

> It does accept the --db argument.

I missed that, apparently because...

> However, if you don't stand in a working directory, you must also
> give it a revision to start the log from (it works it's way backward
> from the revision).

and I had no such revision ID in hand. Sorry, I hadn't read the
documentation carefully enough to catch this constraint.

Perhaps even without a working directory and absent a specified
revision, log could start with the most recent revision in the
database and work backward from there. That is, perhaps there is a
sensible default revision even without a working directory.

-- 
Steven E. Harris