How to get the diff between two arbitrary remote revisions?

[Martin Pool]

On 16 Nov 2005, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> wrote:
> Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> writes:
> 
> > I'd like either
> >  
> >   bzr diff -r 3 /path/to/branch -r 3 /path/to/other/branch
> 
> The difference between
> 
>   bzr diff -r 3 /path/to/branch -r 3 /path/to/other/branch
> 
> and
> 
>   bzr diff -r 3 /path/to/branch -r 42 \
>     ./I/want/the/diff/for/this/precise/file
> 
> (to mean "diff between revno 3 of /path/to/branch and revision 42 in
> the current branch) will become a bit fuzzy then.

It is a bit fuzzy.  And yet gnu diff has a somewhat similar heuristic
when either the first or the last argument is a directory.

> >   bzr diff -r 3 --branch /path/to/branch -r 3 --branch /path/to/other/branch
> 
> That's not my prefered one, but it seems more acceptable. If you
> provide a 1-letter shortcut for --branch (say, -b), it's not really
> longer to type.

OK, so any other comments on this form with -b? 

It would make sense here, and perhaps other places, to allow people to
give two -r options rather than one with dots.

-- 
Martin
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