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Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] parent selector 'p:xxx'
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Ludovic Brenta |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] parent selector 'p:xxx' |
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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:37:18 +0200 |
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"Ralf S. Engelschall" <address@hidden> writes:
> This afternoon I finally got really nerved having to type
>
> $ mtn diff -r `mtn automate parent <rev>` -r <rev>
>
> or the rather ugly, unhandy and partly unrecognizeable
>
> $ mtn log --diffs --no-graph --brief --from <rev> --to <rev>
There is also
$ mtn log --diffs --no-graph --brief --from <rev> --last=1
> just to get the diff output which has lead to a particular revision
> <rev> (which in turn I usually figure out via "mtn annotate"
> beforehand).
>
> I don't know whether it is just me, but I rather often need the _parent_
> of a revision (if more parents exists, I'm out of luck doing an easy
> diff anyway) and especially -- even if a command can figure it out --
> want to avoid even having to copy & paste it more revision ids than
> necessary.
>
> So, find appended a small patch against h:n.v.m which implements a
> "p:<rev>" selector. With this I now can finally use short commands like:
>
> $ mtn diff -r p:<rev> -r <rev>
>
> The <rev> here can be an appreviated revision, too.
I like that and I'm not the only one:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?19753
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?18302
--
Ludovic Brenta.
Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] parent selector 'p:xxx', Ralf S. Engelschall, 2007/10/06
Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] parent selector 'p:xxx',
Ludovic Brenta <=
Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] parent selector 'p:xxx', Ralf S. Engelschall, 2007/10/10