[darcs-users] Re: Frustrations diffing against the last change to a file

[Lele Gaifax]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> writes:

    Thomas> But if you insist on per file stuff; you can check one
    Thomas> section of your project by picking a directory or a file
    Thomas> and running: 
    Thomas> darcs changes Makefile 
    Thomas> followed by: 
    Thomas> darcs diff -u -p 'the description copy-pasted from the
    Thomas> changes ouput'

I think your typo demonstrate the problem: there is no way, other than
cut'n'paste, to easily write the latter command. And note, your
example shows a lucky situation, where either there's a particular
typo :) (more in general, a reasonable short regexp that exactly
matches the change you want), or patch names less cryptic than "fix",
or "updated" (that, by some law, are the best candidates for a deeper
inspection :)

Wouldn't be easier and enough to think that 'revision number' more
simply as the cardinality printed by changes? As other pointed out,
even if it's not a world-wide unique id, it's just a convenient,
local, more or less persistent in the long term, integer changeset
number, that coupled with a --number option here and there, and maybe
from/to-number, could be very effective.

ciao, lele.
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