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Re: an itch to scratch

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-01-15 18:11:44 CET

+1, I think this is a great idea!

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> I wanted to see what people think of this idea.
>
> I have an itch: I run 'svn st -v', and it currently shows me the
> working revision of each file. But I want to also know the last
> revision in which each file *changed*. That's the info that really
> matters.
>
> Often I'll want to see the last set of changes made to a file: 'svn
> diff -r N:HEAD foo.c' But the trick is determining N. If our 'svn
> log' command were working properly right now, I could just view the
> log of foo.c and figure it out. But here's the crazy thing: N is
> already cached in the .svn/entries file. (The keyword $Rev$ expands
> to it.)
>
> So I'm proposing that we add this last-changed-revision as a new
> column to 'svn st -v'. It's a verbose listing, after all. And while
> someday it may end up being redundant with 'svn log foo.c', I have no
> problems with redundancy in the long run.
>
> Thoughts? If people like this idea, maybe we can list it as a
> very easy bite-sized task.

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