4.3 Examining a Tree's History

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Assume that you have checkout out a complete source tree for GNU Arch as described in the previous section.

You can see where a tree was checked out from with the tree-version command:

        % pwd
        /home/lord/tla-dist

        % ls
        =INSTALL        =README         =RELEASE-ID     config
        config.template src             {arch}

        % tla tree-version
        lord@emf.net--2005/rel--tla--1.3.1

You can examine the history of this tree. For example, here we look at the history of the tla project (which is one part of the entire tree):

    % cd src/tla
    % tla logs -r -s
    patch-1
        fix 'pristines' regression
    base-0
        tag of lord@emf.net--2005/tla--devo--1.3.1--patch-21

base-0 and patch-1 are revision names. The two indented strings are from the log messages of the commit operations that created those revisions.

A similar command:

    % tla changelog
    [...]

presents much the same information, plus some additional data from commit logs.

Commands Discussed

    % tla logs -H
    % tla changelog -H

  

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Copyright

Copyright (C) 2005 Tom Lord (lord@emf.net)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this software; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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