[Monotone-devel] Re: Doing a diff between branches

[Bruce Stephens]

"Gerald W. Lester" <address@hidden> writes:

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> Ok, is there a way to do it for just one file?

Sure.  For example,

    monotone diff --revision=24517f62e662d91a059f00573757f9a76bee01b9 
--revision=094a5075b4bd7fe379f810edeb5f03283b50e13a monotone.texi

> In general, how do I get the history of changes to a given file
> (both the diffs and the commit comments)?

Well, "monotone log" can be filtered by file.

I don't think either of those necessarily gives you "history".  For
that you'd presumably want to start somewhere and look at ancestors,
whereas I think "monotone log" may well look at all changesets?
(Maybe not; the brief documentation says "print history in reverse
order starting from 'ID' (filtering by 'file')", which makes it sound
as though it's doing the right thing.)

monotone-viz is pretty nice for this kind of thing, if you want an
interactive tool.

There's nothing quite like "monotone annotate", as far as I know.