Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Proposal for human readable revision IDs

[Thomas Haas]

Matt Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:21:01PM +0200, Thomas Haas wrote:
> 
> 
>>Unfortunatly quite often, as I have to access old revisions files. The
>>only reasonable way to do that seems to be to go from the revisions
>>(monotone cat revision), to the manifest (monotone cat manifest) and
>>than to the file (monotone cat file). Quite horrible.
> 
> 
> Have you tried "monotone cat file REVID FILENAME" ? 
> (now resyntaxed to "monotone cat -r REVID FILENAME" in head)
> 
> Matt
> 

Works as advertised. Now, only "monotone cat file" needs to be fixed for
binary files on Windows.


Thanks & regards
- tom