Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE REQUEST] unify various commands around arch_fqvsn_from_tree_and_input

[Aaron Bentley]

Colin Walters wrote:
> address@hidden/tla--mainline--1.3--patch-2
> address@hidden/tla--mainline--1.3--patch-3
> address@hidden/tla--mainline--1.3--patch-4
> address@hidden/tla--mainline--1.3--patch-5
> address@hidden/tla--mainline--1.3--patch-6
> address@hidden/tla--mainline--1.3--patch-7
> address@hidden/tla--mainline--1.3--patch-8
>
> Hi,
>
> Earlier we discussed having more commands accept a shortened form like
> patch-32 instead of e.g. address@hidden/blah--main--0--patch-32.
>
> The changesets above implement a new function
> arch_fqvsn_from_tree_and_input which abstracts this out, and converts
> get-changeset, undo, cat-log, and delta to use it.  I also removed the
> ability for delta to operate on directories, which made things easier. 
> This last bit (which is in patch-8) may be slightly controversial (?)
> but it's cleaner without, and it seems like people should just use
> 'mkpatch'...

I think we may be duplicating effort.  I've got a function 
arch_determine_revision that determines a revision from a revision or 
version name, and I've applied it to tag and sync-tree.  Extending it to 
support patch-? is pretty natural.  Too sleepy right now, though.

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Aaron