[darcs-users] darcs changes --context --tags=xxx not useful?

David Roundy daveroundy at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 10:21:09 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:49 AM, David Leverton <levertond at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 01 September 2008 23:26:27 you wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:28 PM, David Leverton <levertond at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>> > Is it intentional that (for example) the command
>> >
>> >    darcs changes --context --tags=2.0.1
>> >
>> > in darcs's own repository prints only the "Context:" header and nothing
>> > else? I get the same results with darcs 2.0.2 and the version just built
>> > from the repository.  It works as I would expect, namely printing
>> >
>> >    Context:
>> >
>> >    [TAG 2.0.2
>> >    David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>**20080624012041]
>>
>> You want
>>
>> darcs changes --to-tag 2.0.1
>>
>> David
>
> Thanks, but I'd really prefer the output in the form of a context file.  The
> result with 2.0.2 is exactly what I need, it just doesn't work with older
> tags.  darcs get --tag=... and then running darcs changes --context in the
> new repository works too (and more directly corresponds to what I actually
> want, namely "the context I would have if I ran darcs get with these
> arguments"), but I don't really want to have to make a temporary copy of the
> repository, if I can avoid it.

Sorry, I forgot to include the --context flag, which will give what you want.

David


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