How to get the diff between two arbitrary remote revisions?

[John A Meinel]

Jan Hudec wrote:
> 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.
>> |
>> | AIUI, "-r revid:bar" will only look up the revision in the current-
>> | context branch
>>
>> 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.
> 
> --
> 						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>

Unless you change your mind and do a "bzr revert", then they just stay
there. (Which isn't terrible, because you might try to merge later, and
then you have them).

John
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