Dotted revisions numbers and range of revisions (was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] bzr-0.12 released)

[Martin Pool]

On  2 Nov 2006, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Matthew D. Fuller ??????????:
> >On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:15:30PM -0600 I heard the voice of
> >John Arbash Meinel, and lo! it spake thus:
> >>    * revisions can now be specified using dotted-decimal revision
> >>    numbers.  For instance, ``bzr diff -r 1.2.1..1.2.3. (Robert
> >>    Collins)
> 
> After looking at command line above I wonder if bzr could support more
> readable revisions range specifier, like this:
> 
> bzr diff -r 1.2.1 .. 1.2.3
>                  ^  ^
>                  spaces here?
> 
> Because when it written together without spaces it's hard to read and
> understand when one dotted number ends and other starts.

I agree it's hard to read.

That specific syntax is problematic though because '..' also looks like
a directory name, and one might reasonably write.

 bzr diff -r 13123 ..

Perhaps we should allow

 bzr diff -r 1.2.1 -r 1.2.3

-- 
Martin