[darcs-users] feature request -- 'darcs diff -u --patch="my patch name goes here"'
Andrew Pimlott
andrew at pimlott.net
Wed Sep 22 19:55:17 UTC 2004
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 10:22:21AM -0300, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
> As per David's recent advice, I tried to use "darcs diff" instead of
> "darcs annotate" to get a patch that I could apply with the "patch"
> command.
>
> First I took the "darcs annotate" command that I had used:
>
> darcs annotate -v --patch="catch Tkinter exception so that ui selection
> can proceed"
>
> and replaced the word "annotate" with "diff". No luck.
:-( David acknowledged[1] that diff should probably take --patch, it
just needs hammering out the details and error conditions.
> 'darcs diff -u --from-patch="my patch name goes here"'. Nope
> -- that seemed to give, just as the help text said it would -- all
> changes since a certain patch.
Since from/to ranges were (recently) changed to be inclusive, you should
be able to write it long-hand as
darcs diff -u --from-patch "my patch" --to-patch "my patch"
Andrew
[1] http://www.abridgegame.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2004-July/002487.html
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