Re: seek request

Dear diary, on Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:11:06AM CEST, I got a letter
where Zack Brown [off-list ref] told me that...

Hi folks,

In Cogito, it would be nice to have a

cg-seek +

that would seek to the next archive state. This way, I could start off seeking
back to the beginning of an archive, and quickly step forward, looking at files
as I went, to the present.

A corresponding
cg-seek -
would go the reverse direction, back toward the beginning of a project.

I'm not sure how useful this would be for actual source code - I suspect any
benefit would be minimal - but the benefit for documentation and text files,
where the only way to test improvements is to read them by eye, would be
significant.

Well, and what if the commit has multiple parents? Or - even much more
interestingly - multiple children?

If we keep applying the first parent rule, we could just traverse the
graph from heads/master to HEAD following this rule, and then just take
a step back to where we came from for cg-seek +. It wouldn't be exactly
cheap, but it'd probably work.

Patch welcomed. ;-)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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