cat --follow [was: extdiff --git ?]

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 07:56:59PM -0800, j w wrote:
> >
> > I guess that relates to my other question about 'hg cat' - if that
> > worked with renames, I could just create the temporaries myself and do
> > the diff without too much trouble.
> >
> > -John
> >
> 
> Since this seems generally useful (at least to me), I'm going to try
> adding a -f option to 'hg cat', with similar meaning to that of 'hg
> log'.
> 
> Any reason this might be a bad idea?

Where are you following from? The current directory? What if you want
to follow from a file in another revision?

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