Re: Monotone diff

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:54:15PM -0600, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to diff my current branch aganist another branch like say I
> > wanted to do (except this does not work...):
> >
> > monotone --db=my.db --branch=net.venge.monotone.ssh co .
> > monotone --db=my.db --branch=net.venge.monotone.changesets diff
> >
> > So how would I see the differences between the ssh branch and the changesets
> > branch?
> If the working directory is a checkout of .ssh, you can do:
> $ monotone --branch=net.venge.monotone.changesets heads
> <prints some ids and metadata>
> $ monotone diff <id printed above>
>
> If you don't have a working directory at all, you can do:
> $ monotone --db=my.db --branch=net.venge.monotone.ssh heads
> <prints some ids and metadata>
> $ monotone --db=my.db --branch=net.venge.monotone.changesets heads
> <prints some ids and metadata>
> $ monotone diff <id from first command> <id from second command>
>
> This would be nicer if there was a "head" selector, used like
> h:net.venge.monotone.changesets... we have a "branch" selector
> already, be pretty similar...
>
> -- Nathaniel
Ok thanks, this is great.  I am thinking like a cvs head... I keep forgetting 
about selectors.
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Matthew A. Nicholson
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