revids that include periods are interpreted as ranges

[Brian de Alwis]

How about supporting quoting?

  bzr log -r \"revid:xxx..xxx\"..\"revid:…\"

Brian.

On 29-Aug-2011, at 1:39 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:19:20 -0400
> Robin Luckey <rluckey at blackducksoftware.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I have found several Bzr repositories with revids that include the
>> substring '..' within them. Although these are single revids, bzr
>> interprets them as revid *ranges*, and thus they cannot be passed as
>> parameters to the bzr command line tools.
> 
> Also consider the possibility of a tag containing the string “..”.
> Although I agree that in practice, tags generally would not contain
> this string.  It would be nice if there were some way to be extra
> explicit, such as adding new
> --first-rev=PURE_REV and --last-rev=PURE_REV options in addition to the
> parsed --revision=REVISIONSPEC_OR_POSSIBLY_A_RANGE option.  The
> PURE_REV values would be handled verbatim and not parsed as possible
> ranges.  This would be a simple and complete solution that could be
> used especially for scripts, where a user is not able to observe and
> handle to rare chance that the “..” occurs in a revision range.
> 
> Regards,
> Colin
>