seek request

seek request

[Zack Brown]

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

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Zack Brown

Re: seek request

[Petr Baudis]

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...
> 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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