Announcing bzr-tiplog

[Ben Finney]

Brian de Alwis <briandealwis at gmail.com> writes:

> Tiplog records the history of the tip of a branch. The plugin adds new
> command called 'tiplog' (aliased to 'reflog' too) to show the tip
> history for a particular branch. The plugin adds a new revspec 'tip:i'
> to reference the i'th tip revision; tip:0 is the current tip.
>
> With tiplog, you no longer have to remember to record the previous
> tip. It's particularly useful for backing out a change that you've
> pulled into a branch such as a plugin update that's causing massive
> breakage.

I don't understand, even after reading the example session. The above
description assumes that I know what Git does with its ‘reflog’.

What's the distinction between “the tip history of a branch” versus “the
history of a branch”? What does it mean to “record the previous tip”,
and why would we want to do that?

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Ben Finney