Re: [Monotone-devel] "monotone cat file" not binary save?

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:07:14 +0200, Thomas Haas 
<address@hidden> said:

mt> > In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:21:06 +0200, Thomas 
Haas 
mt> > <address@hidden> said:
mt> > 
mt> > mt> What is the best way to get a copy of an old revision of a file?
mt> > 
mt> > Do a checkout of that revision into a different directory and pick the
mt> > files you want...
mt> 
mt> Richard
mt> 
mt> "monotone checkout -r" works as work-around, but is not convenient:
mt> checking out a potentially huge archive, dig around directories, and
mt> repeat, if another revision is needed. And shouldn't "monotone cat file"
mt> work as expected?

Oh, I completely agree with you.  However, you did ask about how to do
it *today*, right?  *Today*, I think my answer still stands.

I guess 'monotone cat file' should pay attention to the "manual_merge"
attribute, since that's usually applied to non-text files.

Cheers,
Richard

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