Dotted revisions numbers and range of revisions

[Andrew Nguyen]

I don't know if this has been mentioned but what about using a ':'?

bzr diff -r 1.2.1:1.2.3

Just a thought.


Andrew Nguyen
avnguyen at alumni.ucsd.edu

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> Martin Pool пишет:
>> 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
> 
> It seems that other VCS allows this syntax. At least SVN does.
> I think bzr also could.
> 
> -- 
> Alexander
> 
> 

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