commands: mention diff -c

Christian Ebert blacktrash at gmx.net
Sun Feb 21 13:12:37 UTC 2010


* Benoit Boissinot on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 13:58:45 +0100
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 01:52:14PM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> * timeless on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 01:22:30 +0200
>>> +    Alternatively you can specify -c with a revision to use as a
>>> +    baseline.
>>> +
>> 
>> A wording that implicitly informs about the difference between
>> "hg diff -c <rev>" and "hg log -p -r <rev>" would be nice ;-)
>> 
>> Well, at least for me as I don't quite grasp the concept. Is the
>> only difference that "hg diff -c" omits the patch header?
> 
> Yes, that. And you can pass many options to diff to tweak the output,
> that you can't easily pass to log.

Ah. I'm starting to see the light. Probably the oncoming train.

thx

c
-- 
So dacht ich. Nächstens mehr.
_HÖLDERLIN: H Y P E R I O N_  --->> http://www.blacktrash.org/hyperion/



More information about the Mercurial-devel mailing list