Changeset identity

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 08:18 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> Aaron,
> 
> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 18:49 +1200, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 
> > > So the question is, what is the officially approved way of naming a
> > > changeset so that it may be applied from one branch to another.
> > 
> > Well, generally, just a -r spec.  I'm not sure I really understand the
> > question.
> 
> I think there are two aspects to the question:
> 
> 1.  Git (and Mercurial?) label a changeset and that label can be used to
> refer to the changeset.  Bazaar appears not to have this, a changeset
> can only be referred to by a revision number relative to a branch.

revid:GUID 

> 2.  When I tried using revision numbers to do a merge -r XXX appeared to
> imply a range of changesets and not a particular changeset.  I ended up
> having to say -r(XXX-1)..XXX to get the single changeset.

I believe there is a bug open for '-c' to be implemented for merge. -r
consistently references ranges in all bzr commands that I know of.

-Rob
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