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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
