[darcs-users] new version of trac-darcs plugin

[David Roundy]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:27:59PM +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> Eric Y. Kow wrote:
> >1. While I am grateful to have timeline and browse source working
> >   again, I do notice that clicking on ChangeSets is very very
> >   slow.  I understand that this isn't trac-darcs's fault, but
> >   darcs annotate.  But I'm also wondering: is it really neccesary to
> >   use darcs annotate output to display the contents of a changeset?
> 
> Eh, it's a shame that darcs does not provide a more efficient way of 
> obtaining the content of a past revision of a file. Up to 0.3, 
> trac-darcs did a "darcs diff -u -p some patch | patch pristine" to get 
> there, slightly faster than the current approach of parsing its annotate 
> output, but suffering of serious other problems...
> 
> Darcs should definitely grows a "cat" command, ala "svn cat". Given that 
> its annotate command is already able to produce the whole content, even 
> if in a strange and difficult format, it shouldn't be very difficult for 
> an haskeller to implement the simpler output. I won't say how much I'd 
> like to be able to do that...

This is what the query supercommand (and the whole supercommand
infrastructure, currently only used for query manifest) is for.  A
darcs query cat command would be most welcome... and not too hard.
I'm not sure if there's a wishlist bug on this, if not, you could file
one.
-- 
David Roundy