Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] parent selector 'p:xxx'

[Derek Scherger]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On 10/6/07, Derek Scherger <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On another note, I've been running a little shell script lately
>> (coincidentally called review) that does
>>
>> mtn log --next 1000 --no-graph --no-merges --diffs | diffc-0.3 | less -r
>>
>> which shows me what I'm going to get *before* I do an update and lets me
>> look over incoming revs.
>>
>> I'd be happy to call this something else though ("incoming" perhaps) if
>> we use review to mean "review these revs ..."
> 
> Ooh, I've been wondering how to do that.  (What's this diffc-0.3 thing?)

It's just some perl script that colorizes diffs in a way that seems to
look nice. It used to be available at http://download.gnu.org/diffc-0.3
but I can't seem to get there at the moment.

> 
> Also, something I've been doing a lot lately is
> 
> mtn automate select b:BRANCH | mtn automate toposort -@ - | tac |
> while read rev; do mtn log --last 1 --no-graph --from $rev; done |
> less

On a slightly related note I think I've seen quite a few things saying
"--no-graph" lately and I wonder if that should really be the default?

Cheers,
Derek