Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs

[Matt Johnston]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:21:01PM +0200, Thomas Haas wrote:

> Unfortunatly quite often, as I have to access old revisions files. The
> only reasonable way to do that seems to be to go from the revisions
> (monotone cat revision), to the manifest (monotone cat manifest) and
> than to the file (monotone cat file). Quite horrible.

Have you tried "monotone cat file REVID FILENAME" ? 
(now resyntaxed to "monotone cat -r REVID FILENAME" in head)

Matt