[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
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> === 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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