[RFC] Trying to get something better that revno:N:branch to deal with remote revs

Matthieu Moy Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr
Tue Aug 15 16:24:59 BST 2006


"ghozzy _" <ghozzy at gmail.com> writes:

> I can think of one more way of specifying branch:
> (given the "-b" switch is for specifying branch)
>
> bzr diff -r 3 -b http://remote/branch -r 4 -b http://somewhere/else
>
> This scheme does not use arguments with two parameters, does not need
> anything escaped and is clear to type and read. However it requires parsing
> of repeated options.

I'd rather add also an order-sensitive parsing of command-line, to
prevent

$ bzr diff -r 3 -r 4 -b ./branch1 -b ./branch2

or such, which I find very unclear.

-- 
Matthieu




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