Ralf S. Engelschall spake unto us the following wisdom: > Yes, such a command is such good that I recently even tried to implement > it in Lua with the help of mtn_automate() -- I just failed because > of a bug in mtn_automate() which I reported recently, too. The name > for the command would be "mtn changeset" or in short "mtn cs". The > output I expect is actually is more or less really the same as what "mtn > log --diffs --no-graph --from <rev> --to <rev>" currently gives us: a > summary information about a changeset. So, I personally would prefer > that we both provide the generic selector p:<rev> (as it can be useful > for others commands beside "mtn diff", too) and also implement a "mtn cs > <rev>" command which produces the output of "mtn log --diffs --no-graph > --from <rev> --to <rev>" plus perhaps even more if available.
I also believe that the p: selector is useful in its own right -- I
find myself using `mtn automate parents` from time to time.
Ethan
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