How to communicate with upstream sources intelligently

[Jari Aalto+usenet]

* Thu 2006-06-29 Wouter van Heyst <larstiq AT larstiq.dyndns.org>
* Message-Id: 20060628233222.GJ32184 AT larstiq.dyndns.org
>> Hm. How do I diff between 1.0 and 1.1 to see what's changed
>> in the model you presented?
>
> After branching TRUNK-1.0 to TRUNK-1.1, deleting all files, untarring,
> bzr add and bzr commit, just diff the two.
>
> cd ..
> bzr diff TRUNK-1.0 TRUNK-1.1
>
> Or use the 'branch' revision spec:
>
> cd TRUNK-1.1
> bzr diff -r branch:../TRUNK-1.0

*leaning forward* That's new. Are the prefix modifiers like "branch:"
explained somewhere?

> In the case where you just imported 1.1, you could ofcourse also
> check the difference with the previous revision.
>
> cd TRUNK-1.1
> bzr diff -r -2..-1

Where can I learn more about the negative revisions? This doesn't seem
to be mentioned in "bzr diff -h" (v0.8.2).

Thanks,
Jari