Hi there, Is there a fossil "copy" command? There's add, mv, rm but no cp?
It's a neat feature of subversion that you can copy a file either from the current checked-out tree or from somewhere else in time and space from the repository, thereby keeping a tracable history intact. At the moment, please forgive me if I've overlooked it, when a file is copied its link to its previous versions is lost and therefore diffs are not easily available, unless the user knows where the previous version is. Would this be a feature worth considering? As a test, I did a bit of a hack in terms of manually updating the vfile table via sqlite and setting 'origname' to the original file, and this sort-of worked, although it probably doesn't work for pulling a copy directly from the repository which may or may not exist as such in the current checked-out branch, and the timeline of course didn't link it correctly either. If it doesn't already exist, and were to be added, in my opinion the copy command should at least support the same syntax as fossil mv, but with an optional --from option: fossil cp ?OPTIONS? ORIG COPY fossil cp ?OPTIONS? ORIG... DIR where OPTIONS can be: --from REVISION = copy from the specified check-in Good idea / bad idea? I'm happy to have a go at patching fossil to support this, if someone can give me an quick overview of how to go about it in the correct way since I'm not to familiar with fossil's internals yet. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
