Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] head selector

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:09:28 -0500, Brian Downing 
<address@hidden> said:

bdowning> On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 01:08:29PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS 
Whacker wrote:
bdowning> > Hmm, I'm working on a different idea that happens to use
bdowning> > the same selector letter.  My idea is to have a more
bdowning> > generic head (or rather, 'head-most') selector, which
bdowning> > would work by placing 'h:' before any selector.  It only
bdowning> > works when selectors are used to get one or more
bdowning> > revisions, and simply does erase_ancestors() on the bunch
bdowning> > of fetched revision ids.

Patch attached.

bdowning> I'd still like to have a way to get "heads of the current
bdowning> branch" without actually typing the branch.  Probably making
bdowning> 'b:' return the revs in the current branch would do this.
bdowning> (With my patch to it to make it a glob, 'b:' will always
bdowning> return nothing as it is, so it could be overloaded.)

In the particular case you mentioned ('monotone update -b {branch} -r h:')
I still do not see why there should be a need to specify the head
revision either way.  Can you see another command where having to
specify that you want the head of the branch given in --branch makes
sense?

Cheers,
Richard

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