[darcs-users] A dumb question

[Ralph Dratman]

David,

I needed to take a look at some source from a while ago, to help me
retrace my steps after I got confused. I was modifying someone else's
source code, and my latest version wasn't working. I wanted to get
back to something that worked.

My brain gets muddled easily these days, and I have to find my bearings somehow.

Thank you for your replies. I like darcs very much. It also mystifies
me in a number of ways.

Ralph

On 11/11/06, David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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