[darcs-users] Re: Retrieving a specific "version" of a file

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

>     cp file file.copy; 
>     darcs diff --to-patch=foo file | patch -R file.copy

Yes, that's the way vc-darcs.el works (in the case when it cannot go
under _darcs/current).  It's grossly inefficient, though -- the first
thing |darcs diff| does is to create complete trees of both the from
and to versions.

                                        Juliusz