# seek request 2 messages from 2005-05-22 to 2005-05-26. Participants: Zack Brown, Petr Baudis. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/689 ## Zack Brown, 2005-05-22 07:11 Subject: seek request Message-ID: <20050522071106.GA8060@tumblerings.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050522071106.GA8060%40tumblerings.org ``` 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. Be well, Zack -- Zack Brown ``` ## Petr Baudis, 2005-05-26 08:29 Subject: Re: seek request Message-ID: <20050526082941.GC22262@pasky.ji.cz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050526082941.GC22262%40pasky.ji.cz In-Reply-To: <20050522071106.GA8060@tumblerings.org> ``` Dear diary, on Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:11:06AM CEST, I got a letter where Zack Brown told me that... > 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. ;-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor ```