I would it find useful of fossil would provide a means to directly provide
the functionality of this script:
8<---------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/env ksh
# construct *CURRENT* revision info string plus indication of any changes
to the checkout
revnum=$(
fossil status|\
awk -F'checkout:[ ]*' '
/^checkout/ {
print substr($NF, 1, 10)
}
'
)
changes=$(fossil changes)
[[ -z $changes ]] || changes=+
print $revnum$changes
8<---------------------------------------------
which simply echoes (the first 10 chars of) the sha1 hash of the *CURRENT*
checkout and appends a `+' if the checkout has any changes relative
to the repository state at this revision. `hg' users might be remembered
of `hg id -i' ;-)
I find this useful at least for multi-file text documents (LaTeX,
AsciiDoc, etc.) for inclusion of auto-generated revision information in
the final formatted document (which might be circulated to co-workers) in
order to keep track of what "hardcopy" one is talking about. in this
situation (multiple files containing different chapters, included
graphics, etc.), `fossil finfo -s doc.tex' would _not_ provide the same
functionality (for a single-file document it would). of course it would be
nicer to have this functionality as a fossil command instead of as a
separate script so that the document "compiles" for others as well
(without having to include the script in each and every repo needing this).
if considered acceptable I propose to use `fossil status -s' to get this
sort of output (or imitate `hg' and define a new `id' command).
j.
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