[PATCH] -r 1-100 not -r1:100 please...

Rusty Russell rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Fri May 27 07:15:05 BST 2005


On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 00:04 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> >OK, you knew this was coming 8)
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Check out my latest patch for revision handling. There is a very
> specific reason to use ':' instead of '-'. Negative numbers. With my
> latest updates you can do:
> 
> bzr log -r -5:

Yes, which is because bzr doesn't parse arguments correctly.  -r-5- or
--revision=-5- would work just fine.

-r last:5 would be nice, and fit with a sane colon-based namespace
scheme.

Rusty.
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