-r 1-100 vs -r 1:100 vs ...

[Michael Ellerman]

Hi all,

So I've been thinking about what the syntax for diff ranges should be. I 
personally prefer using 1-100, because I think it's more obvious and it means 
we don't need {}. But there's arguments both ways.

Then I thought, hang on, why don't we just specify it using a pre-existing and 
well understood "syntax"?

And so we have:

bzr diff -r 1 to 100

English!

We can also do:

bzr log -r -10 to -5 -v
bzr diff -r 1 to now
bzr diff -r to date:yesterday
bzr diff -r start to revid:michael at concordia-20050528165512-31af65114a1cdbd2

and so on.

I've implemented this on top of John's original patch to add x:y and all the 
date and revid goodies. And there's also Rusty's diff range patch, so you can 
actually use the revision ranges.

Try it out.

Or am I crazy?

cheers

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Michael Ellerman
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