[darcs-users] Patch IDs? [WAS: Match problem]

[Michael Ngarimu]

On May 30, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Eric Y. Kow wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 16:56:39 -0500, Michael Ngarimu wrote:
>> My need to select patches by exact date and time arose from a need to
>> uniquely identify patches. When the repo(s) were originally created
>> and begun there was not a "good" convention for naming patches so the
>> only method I could think of to identify individual patches that were
>> created back then was to use the date and time.
>
> I think you might be interested in match 'hash ...' (see darcs help
> match for some hints)
>
> To get the list of hashes, you can use darcs changes --xml.  There may
> be a better way, but I can't think of it right now.

Yes, hash will work! Just wasn't sure of how to get a list of the  
actual hashes.

Thanks again :-)