Re: Feature request/ideas

[Derek Price]

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Frank Hemer wrote:

| In response to an old thread/message from dec 04,
| (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cvs/2004-12/msg00150.html) I
| would like to add some suggestions:
|
| The cvsnt commitid feature for the log cmd is a very neet feature
| because it allows to collect all versions that belong to a single
| commit.


Yes, this would be nice.

| Another idea is a diff extension: Set to a specific revision (using
| the diff -r option), I would like to compare this revision against
| its direct parent.


"Predecessor".  Not "parent".  "Parent" is usually used to refer to
branching structure.

| Any comments?


If your second part, above, were abstracted out such that the new
revision-1 tag could be used anywhere CVS accepts two revision options
(basically, diff & update/commit -j), then this format could also be
used to concisely back out a commit or to merge a specific commit to a
new location.

It's possible that something like `.previous' would be a good special
tag for this case since it doesn't intrude on the existing tag
namespace, a la Steve Cameron's .trunk/.parent/.base patch that needs
to be ported forward and committed someday.

Basically, yes, I would very much like to see this patch.

Regards,

Derek
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