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

[Erik Bågfors]

I love it, and yet I don't :)

One problem is that I expect only one argument to follow -r. Simply
because that's what I'm used to in almost all other programs.

bzr diff -r "1 to 10" etc, would make sence to me.

/Erik

On 5/28/05, Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> 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
> 
> --
> Michael Ellerman
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