Re: VC command for showing outgoing changes

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:15:31 -0700 (PDT), Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> > > It would be nice to have a VC command for showing the outgoing changes
> > > for distributed VC systems (i.e. the log of the changes that will be
> > > pushed when you do a VC push).
> > > Let's call this method vc-outgoing (name suggestions are welcome).
> >
> > I think before that we should have support for a `push' backend operation.
>
> You mean as a precondition of doing vc-outgoing?
> I'd like to avoid tangling the two.  vc-outgoing should be easy, and similar 
> to
> what we already do for `print-log', I am not so sure about `push'.
> I think vc-outgoing can be useful even without a push operation, just
> for showing the log and examining diffs.

Yes, it will be useful even without a `push' backend command.  What
would also be nice is to be able to use log-view mode _with_ the
vc-outgoing command.  For example mark a changeset with `m' in log-view
mode and see all the outgoing changes up to *that* changeset.