Re: [Monotone-devel] "monotone diff" header doesn't contain revision information

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:23:46PM +0100, Tom Koelman wrote:
> I noticed that the output of "monotone diff" contains a detailed
> header which files were added, deleted, patched and so on, but not
> what was diffed with what. All the file hashes in the diff are nice to
> have, but don't lead me to the actual revisions.  Would it be a good
> idea to mention something at the start of the output of "monotone
> diff" like
> 
> # Diff of revision xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> #    with revision xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> or 
> 
> # Diff of revision xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (branch 
> xxx.branch)
> #    with revision xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (branch xxx.main)
> 
> or even
> 
> # Diff of working copy d.d. 2006-01-20 of x:/WorkingCopy
> #    with revision xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hmm, this does seem like handy info to have around.  I've stuck it up
on the quickies list:
  http://venge.net/monotone/quickies.html
(maybe we should move this list to the wiki...)

-- Nathaniel

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