How to get the diff between two arbitrary remote revisions?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Jan Hudec wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>>That looks pretty alien to me.  I can't see why you'd want to commit
>>against a hash fragment, rather than a branch name.
> 
> 
> Because it does not have the name yet?

But if all it has is a hash, it's pretty hard to find what you want, anyhow.

> Basically say I have revision r in branch X, but not it's head, and I want to
> try something against it. So I do bzr branch -r r X Y. But if I don't want to
> copy over all the data, it's two steps for archive branch (branch and
> checkout). 

Well, depends what we do.  Personally, I'd like a way to do
branch-and-checkout in one step.

Anyhow, didn't mean to critique Hg, just was having trouble
understanding what it solved.

Aaron
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