How to get the diff between two arbitrary remote revisions?

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 23:02:48 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Robey Pointer wrote:
> | All I really meant was:
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> | I don't think -r should let you shunt across to a different branch  from
> | the branch currently in context.
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> | AIUI, "-r revid:bar" will only look up the revision in the current-
> | context branch
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> No, revid is completely context-independent.  It's a universally unique
> identifier.  You can specify any revision id you like.  Of course, if
> it's not stored in your branch, the operation isn't likely to succeed.
> But it's quite common for a branch to store revisions that aren't
> ancestors of the latest revision.  Happens every time you merge.

It's not common. It only happens when you have a *PENDING* merge.
Becase once you commit, they become ancestors of the current revision.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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