[darcs-users] feature suggestions: whatsnew for local/remote comparison

[John Meacham]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:22:01AM -0700, Zack Brown wrote:
> Just as we can do a 'darcs whatsnew' to see what we haven't 'recorded' yet,
> it would be cool to do something similar to see if a remote maintainer has
> applied something we've 'pushed' to their repository yet.
> 
> The feature I'm thinking of would be like a 'diff', but instead of being
> between different versions, it would be between one repo and another.
> Additionally, modifications made locally would display differently from
> modifications made remotely; and the user could give an option to
> suppress displaying one or the other.

yes. I want something like this. what I was thinking was something like:

darcs compare <repo1> <repo2> (where repos can be local or remote and if
only one is given, the other is assumed to be .)

what it will do is show:
<repo1> has the following patches <repo2> doesn't:
patch1         (just patch names)
patch2 ...
<repo2> has the following patches <repo1> doesn't:
patchA
patchB ...

repo1 has the following local changes:
(darcs whatsnew output for repo1)
repo2 has the following local changes:
(darcs whatsnew output for repo2)

        John


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