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what happened to stg diff -r /{bottom|top}?

StGit Dan Williams 2 participants 2 messages Jun 15, 2016

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I noticed that with the latest StGit:

# stg diff -r /bottom
stg diff: /bottom: Unknown patch or revision name

Before I bisect to find where this disappeared, is there a different syntax I should be using?

Thanks,
Dan

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2008/12/5 Dan Williams <[email protected]>:

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I noticed that with the latest StGit:

# stg diff -r /bottom
stg diff: /bottom: Unknown patch or revision name

Before I bisect to find where this disappeared, is there a different syntax I should be using?

In the development (master) branch, we changed the syntax to make it cleaner. A patch (its top) can be identified as [<branch>:]<patch>. It also supports standard Git suffixes like ^, ~{...} etc. To access the bottom of a patch, just use [<branch>:]<patch>^.

The bottom of the top patch could be accessed as HEAD^ (I've been thinking about only allowing the caret for this, without the HEAD but I didn't have time to try it).

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