[darcs-users] revision identifiers

[Declan Naughton]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Max Battcher <me at worldmaker.net> wrote:
> Gary King wrote:
>  > On Mar 27, 2008, at 12:16 AM, Max Battcher wrote:
>  >> Maybe I'll
>  >> write an article on my impressions of Darcs and Context files versus
>  >> Tags...
>  >
>  >
>  > I would love to read it!
>  >
>  > (more darcs "best practices" articles, etc. would be a big help).
>
>  Here's a first rough draft:
>
>  http://blog.worldmaker.net/2008/mar/27/darcs-and-useful-context-file/
>
>  --
>  --Max Battcher--
>

Useful stuff.

Now that I've learned that contexts can be used in this way, this is
much cooler. However, what about being able to enter the context file
contents at standard input? "darcs failed:  option `--context'
requires an argument FILENAME"

Contexts DEFINITELY deserve much more publicity.

Documentation is something that could be worked on, and general
usability of the program, but I guess that's because I've come from
learned Mercurial through it's documentation. It's so important,
though.

The reason I asked about revision identifiers is because I'm looking
at writing a program that will need to navigate files in a source
repository - and people need to be able to specify specific versions
of a file to use. So, I'm hoping it's not too much bother, but how
does one narrow down the patches (to produce a context file?) that are
used to reproduce a file? Am I right to say: in other words what is a
command to find all the patches that depend the addfile patch of a
particul file?

-- 
Declan Naughton