Announcing bzr-tiplog

[Martin Pool]

On 24 September 2011 02:17, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> On Fri 23 Sep 2011 17:10:17 CEST, Brian de Alwis wrote:
>> I'm pleased to announce bzr-tiplog, a bzr plugin for recording and using the history of changes to a branch's tip.  tiplog is the equivalent to git's reflog.
>>
>> 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.
> Cool, I'm going to give it a try. I'm quite pleased by how well this
> sort of thing is doable now without having to e.g. patch the bzr core.

Likewise, that sounds handy.

Brian, would you like to post about it on
<https://blog.bazaar.canonical.com/>?  I added you to the team that
has write access.

It could be good to mention this in the bzr docs, even if the code
itself remains in a plugin.

Martin