On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Ron Wilson <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Expanding on my suggestion for relative tags like "+2" or "-3", the
>> capability to specify a commit relative to an arbitrary specified commit
>> would be useful as well.
>>
>
> There's a potential problem there: when a checkin has multiple parents,
> such an identifier is ambiguous.
> ....
> That said, i like Lluis' idea of:
>
> fossil diff --checkin uuid
>
> as a shortcut for "diff the given uuid against its parent," with the
> caveat that a multi-parent checkin might need to toss an error there.
>

A commit with multiple parents would have a "primary parent" and one or
more "merge parents". I think that the "previous" (or "-1") parent would be
the primary/non-merge parent.

I have looked some at the code, but been working extra hours lately.

I hope your dog enjoys visiting his mom.
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