Re: [Monotone-devel] Getting a diff for the first commit in a branch?

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:04:42 -0800, Nathaniel Smith 
<address@hidden> said:

njs> Oh, I see, but you mean _after_ commit, you have a revision, and
njs> want to diff it against its ancestor, but there is none.

Precisely

njs> Yeah, there isn't really a good way to do that ATM, though it's a
njs> perfectly possible thing to do.  What would be the right UI for
njs> it, I think is the question...

We could have the special revision START, or have a special option,
like --branch-start, or...

Anyway, I realised it wasn't that hard to synthesise.  I just get the
status of that revision (cat revision) and parse the output for the
change statements (patch with from = []), and use those file names and
identities to extract the correct version of each file (cat file).
The rest is just a question of formatting...

Cheers,
Richard

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