[darcs-users] getting different versions of a file

[David Roundy]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:14:17PM -0500, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 12:00 -0500, David Roundy wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:54:54AM -0500, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:29 -0500, David Roundy wrote:
> > > > On Jan 17, 2008 11:24 AM, Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> > > > > darcs diff gets me a patch, but how do I get an earlier version of a
> > > > > file?
> > > > 
> > > > darcs show contents --help
> > > $ darcs show contents --help
> > > 
> > > darcs failed:  Invalid command 'show'!
> > > 
> > > Is it a darcs2 only command?
> > 
> > Ah, yes, so it is.  It's just that it was added before I took over as
> > maintainer, so I didn't realize that.
> > 
> > The easiest might be to get a scratch repo and obliterate.
>
> Am I correct that with obliterate I could step back to different
> versions of a file, but could not then go forward without making a new
> scratch repository?

No, you'd just need to use darcs pull to go forward.

> > > Also, I was trying to look at the binary diff with
> > > $ darcs send -p disable -o dpatch .
> > > but get
> > > No recorded local changes to send!
> > > 
> > > darcs changes -p disable does list a patch (which has only binary
> > > differences).
> > 
> > Just use darcs changes -p disable -v or darcs annotate -p disable (possibly
> > with -u).
>
> the changes and annotate commands only name the binary files that
> differed, same as without the -v or -u modulo formatting.

Oh right.

> And how come the send command is failing?

It's failing presumably because this patch is already in whatever
repository you're sending to.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University