Re: [Gnu-arch-users] feature request(?): file-history command.

[Aaron Bentley]

Paul Pelzl wrote:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> # Usage: baz-file-history FILE
> # List all fully-qualified revisions that touch FILE.
>
> for lv in `baz log-versions`; do 
>    for pl in `baz logs -f $lv`; do 
>       if `baz cat-log $pl | grep -F -q $1`; then 
>          echo $pl
>       fi
>    done
> done

Fai has a couple of advantages:
1. it actually uses the modified-files header, instead of matching 
anything in the log.  (e.g. if you write TODO in the log body)
2. it tracks renames

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.