[Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Using monotone in a team

[Boris]

Daniel Carosone wrote:
> [...]
> h: is a selector for "the heads of a branch", and defaults to the
> current branch of not named.  After a sync, new heads may have
> arrived, and hence you are considering an update and want to find out
> what it will do.
>
> Giving diff one -r argument takes the diff between the current
> workspace and that revision (rather than the base).  So if you have no
> uncomitted changes, the result is what I described: a diff that shows
> what your workspace has 'undone' from the (new) head, or in other
> words a reversed diff of the changes an update would apply.
>
> If you new your base revision, you could get the diff you really
> wanted with diff -r <base> -r h:, it's just that we don't have a
> simple generic way to refer to <base> other than by knowing it in
> advance.  Adding that is one of the Quickie Tasks a new contributor
> could start with.

Thanks again for all your explanations! Just one question I have here. In 
'diff -r <base> -r h:' you wanted to refer with <base> to the current 
revision in workspace, right? I just ask to get the terminology right.

Boris