Re: [Gnu-arch-users] from a file's point of view

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Dustin Sallings <address@hidden>

    >   There are a few items that seem to be missing from a file's point of 
    > view.

Sort of.  Not as much as you might think.

    >   Is there a way to see a list of patches that have affected a given 
    > file?

Of course, slowly and by brute force, you can just fetch and search
changesets.

If you have a revision library covering the part of history of
interest, you can do the brute force search rather quickly.

If you want very fast access to that view of history, you'll need to
build a little ancillary structure.  A couple of browsers have done
that so far.  It's a tiny bit of scripting, is all.


    >   (less importantly) has there been any thought into adding keyword 
    > expansion type things in files?


Yes.   Negative thought, mostly :-)

-t