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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Diffs "from" working directory
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:28:53 +0000
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On 21/11/05, Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > A "-R" option to "stg diff" would be convenient, sure.--b.
>
> that might be an even more intuitive way to dig out what is wanted.

I also like the idea of having a -R option (--reverse the long
version). This would mean reversing the commit that changed the diff
-r option.

> btw, catalin, this was bruce's patch.  i'm not sure why i was listed as
> the author (probably a mistake of mine when i imported his patch into my
> repository).  ah well.

My import command sets the author to the e-mail sender, which was you.
Maybe this should be changed but I don't know which option is better.
In the meantime, you can change the default e-mail template to set the
From: line with to the author of the patch and maybe add a Reply-to:
with your address.

--
Catalin