On 2/28/06, Marnix Klooster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason Dagit wrote:
>
> >On 2/28/06, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>New submission from Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>
> >>I believe this is one of the minor to-do list items we came up with in 
> >>FOSDEM.
> >>
> >>Somebody ought to implement a 'darcs cat' command which lists the contents 
> >>of a
> >>file managed by darcs.  This would be useful because we could pass flags to 
> >>it
> >>like --to-patch (?).
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This sounds good.  I like the idea, but would 'cat' really be obvious to 
> >people?
> >
>
> ...just give it an alias "darcs type" for the Windows folks. :-)
>
> And: would "darcs cat" con-cat-enate multiple files?  My UNIX soul says
> it should, however that behaviour is probably not the friendliest for
> many darcs users.
>
> Alternative name suggestions: "darcs print", "darcs show", "darcs
> output", "darcs view", "darcs edit" (the latter two would also invoke an
> editor, perhaps in read-only mode).

Of that list 'darcs view' is my favorite.

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