[darcs-users] A dumb question

[David Roundy]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 01:12:16AM -0500, Ralph Dratman wrote:
> However, David, your next suggestion is really not very useful to a
> still unsteady beginner:
> 
> "[You could use] one of the ways of calling annotate (which also allow
> to extract an older version of a file)"
> 
> With respect to darcs annotate, where would I find a clear explanation
> of the command, one that might explain how it can "extract an older
> version of a file" ? I see no such indication in darcs help annotate,
> nor in the manual.

darcs annotate -p 'Make.*cache-foo' GNUmakefile | grep -v '^#'

Substituting your own regular expression and filename, of course.  It's
stupid, but this is a feature I've almost never wanted.
-- 
David Roundy
Dept. of Physics
Oregon State University