[MERGE] Correct incorrect wording in revisionspec help
Martin Pool
mbp at canonical.com
Fri Jan 9 08:32:15 GMT 2009
On 9 Jan 2009, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
> SSIA. The information for how ranges in diff work is incorrect.
>
> The whole paragraph is pretty muddy, IMO. It confuses as much as it
> explains, and it seems to implicitly put across the message that
> differences are due to special cases, rather than the nature of the
> questions being asked. But that's a much broader question to
> consider, than just fixing the obvious bug.
Maybe a good way to make it clear is to say: "the changes between the
tree committed by revision 3647, and the tree committed by 3649, which
means it contains the changes done in 3648 and 3649"?
>
> I would also propose this for 1.11. It's tiny and obviously incorrect
> (the fix may be wrong too, but at least we know it's wrong before :)
>
>
> --
> Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd at over-yonder.net
> Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
> On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
> === modified file 'bzrlib/help_topics/__init__.py'
> --- bzrlib/help_topics/__init__.py 2008-12-15 04:33:37 +0000
> +++ bzrlib/help_topics/__init__.py 2009-01-09 08:12:00 +0000
> @@ -168,8 +168,8 @@
> addition, "log" considers a closed range whereas "diff" and "merge" consider it
> to be open-ended, that is, they include one end but not the other. For example:
> "bzr log -r 3647..3649" shows the messages of revisions 3647, 3648 and 3649,
> -while "bzr diff -r 3647..3649" includes the changes done in revisions 3647 and
> -3648, but not 3649.
> +while "bzr diff -r 3647..3649" includes the changes done in revisions 3648 and
> +3649, but not 3647.
>
> The keywords used as revision selection methods are the following:
> """)
>
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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp>
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