[darcs-users] darcs newbie questions

[Steffen Schuldenzucker]

On 02/17/2012 10:49 PM, Michael Hendricks wrote:
> [...]
> For the following questions, I'm using darcs 2.5.2 installed from
> Hackage via cabal.
>
> Is it possible to colorize diff command output?  I've set
> DARCS_ALWAYS_COLOR=1 and DARCS_DO_COLOR_LINES=1.  The output of `darcs
> whatsnew` has color but `darcs diff --unified` is black and white.
> I'd like for them both to have color.

I use

$ darcs diff -u | pygmentize -l diff

$ darcs diff -u | colordiff
should work as well.

> [...]
> In other version control tools, I will often look through recent
> changes, find one that's interesting and then display its patch.
> Subversion's log command displays a revision number and one can do
> `svn diff -c 1234` to see the patch.  Git`s log command shows a commit
> hash allowing one to run `git show abcde123` to see the patch.  The
> best I've found in darcs is `darcs changes --number` followed by
> `darcs diff -n 1234`.  Do patches have a more permanent identifier
> that I should be using instead?

For this workflow, couldn't you just use

$ darcs changes --interactive

? You wouldn't even have to remember a number.

 > [...]

-- Steffen