Add lookup method to filectx
authorBrendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:26:09 -0700
changeset 3207 0790dce2f3a8
parent 3206 79fd7a92f3e2
child 3208 e7b7906cc47e
Add lookup method to filectx
mercurial/context.py
--- a/mercurial/context.py	Fri Sep 29 16:26:09 2006 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/context.py	Fri Sep 29 16:26:09 2006 -0700
@@ -130,6 +130,12 @@
     def __repr__(self):
         return "<filectx %s@%s>" % (self.path(), short(self.node()))
 
+    def filectx(self, fileid):
+        '''opens an arbitrary revision of the file without
+        opening a new filelog'''
+        return filectx(self._repo, self._path, fileid=fileid,
+                       filelog=self._filelog)
+
     def filerev(self): return self._filerev
     def filenode(self): return self._filenode
     def filelog(self): return self._filelog