Re: seek request
Dear diary, on Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:11:06AM CEST, I got a letter where Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> told me that...
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> 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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