Re: VCS comparison table

[ trim back CC a bit ]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 01:37:31PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Petr Baudis, and lo! it spake thus:

[...] you probably primarily show revnos everywhere and UUIDs only
in few special places and/or when asked specifically through a
command (correct me if I'm wrong).

The primary place you'd see either is in 'log'.  To show the UUID,
you'd add a "--show-ids" arg to it (and via per-user config aliasing,
you could just alias 'log' to 'log --show-ids' if you always wanted to
see them, so you wouldn't have to type it.  The output looks something
like:

revno: 1
revision-id: fullermd@over-yonder.net-20061019151437-5b99dff6ed1d76cd
committer: Matthew Fuller [off-list ref]
branch nick: a
timestamp: Thu 2006-10-19 10:14:37 -0500
message:
  Foo

(without --show-ids, it's the same, except not showing the
revision-id: line)

Also, do you support "UUID autocompletion" so that you can type just
the unique UUID prefix instead of the whole thing?

With the form of bzr UUID's, that's not particularly useful, since
you're probably into the minutes/seconds of the timestamp before it
becomes unique, at which points you're close to 2/3 of the way through
the whole string.



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