Re: [Gnu-arch-users] file-diffs could use the following syntax: tla file-diffs filename.c patch-12

[James Blackwell]

address@hidden (Matthieu Moy) wrote:
> address@hidden (James Blackwell) writes:
>
>> A nice little hack would be that if argv[3] is a fully unqualified revision,
>> then tack on the tree_version and try and use that instead.
>
> file-diffs is not the only such command.
>
> (Almost ?) any command taking a revision as an argument could be
> modified in the same way.

I saw only one other place where we could do so trivially and safely, 
and that was tla changes.

We don't want to make a global change, like changing arch_fully_qualify,
because then would happily do the wrong thing in many places. For
example, star-merging an earlier revision is senseless.


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