Confused about the output of 'bzr log --f --limit=X'

[Vincent Vertigo]

Damn... looking at the mail archives on
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2007q4, it looks like my previous
mail was truncated.
So here is the whole mail again:

2007/12/14, Vincent Vertigo <vincent.vertigo at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am confused with the usage of 'log' command, when combining options
> 'forward' and 'limit'.
>
> First, using bzr from command-line, I find the 'forward / --f' option
> mandatory as soon as my branch exceeds 50 revisions: I am usually more
> interested in the log of my latest revisions, and it seems more logical to
> me in that chronological order.
> Am I the only one? Could it not be the default ordering, with replacement
> of option 'forward' with option 'backward'? (just wondering...).
>
> What's more confusing to me is that, always using "bzr log --f", I have no
> use for option '--limit=X', as it limits the revision output to the first X
> revisions. From a system that Just Works :-) I would expect 'bzr log --f
> --limit=10' to output the latest 10 revisions from my branch. Again, I am
> just wondering...
> Now that I am an experienced user, I use an alias like "bzr -log --f
> -rlast:10.." but it does not feel like it Just Works.
>
> Any thought to share?
> And as a side note: congratulations for the 1.0 milestone, I have now the
> final argument to convince my manager :-)
> Regards.
>
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