Re: [Monotone-devel] Extensions to automation, again

[Zack Weinberg]

On 10/18/06, Timothy Brownawell <address@hidden> wrote:
> > automate get_file_by_path PATH [REVISION]
> >  -> returns the complete file given in path in a certain revision,
> >     if the revision is omitted, this basically returns the current
> >     contents of the file in the current workspace revision
> >
> > automate get_file_type PATH [REVISION]
> >  -> returns the file type binary/non-binary, again for the current
> >     or any other revision
>
> These would just be subsets of what get_manifest_of does. And I'd expect
> that most applications that would be calling these would already have
> results from get_manifest_of laying around.

Not necessarily; consider a stateless system like viewMTN, where you
don't want to parse out the entire manifest for a particular version
every time the user asks for information about a specific file.

zw