Re: [Gnu-arch-users] file-diffs could use the following syntax: tla file-diffs filename.c patch-12

[Miles Bader]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 06:27:28PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Many commands that take a revision arguments can be modified to use 
> either arch_fqvsn_from_tree_and_input or arch_determine_revision.  Stick 
> your alias stuff in there too, and loads of needless typing is eliminated.

Exactly, and since "patch-xx" is almost always an illegal name without such
expansion, it seems quite safe too (obviously some care should be taken, but
... it doesn't seems like a particularly risky change).

Didn't you and Colin have competing patches to do jus this?  Whatever
happened to those?

-Miles
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