Re: [PATCH] 'last N changes' mode for svn log

Garrett Rooney wrote:

>So I've been toying around with changes to 'svn log' so that you can
>do something like:
>
>$ svn log -r HEAD:-10 http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk
>
>And get the last 10 changes on the trunk. I find myself running 'svn
>log' with no revision specified an awful lot, and it seems awfully
>wasteful since I usually only want the last few revisions anyway.
>[...]
>
>

That's a very good idea. But I think that it is more limited than need
be. If you define it as

    L[{+|-}O][:R[{+|-}O]]

where O is the offset that must be numeric, you can use the offset in
all positions. An added bonus is that the right side becomes context
free again. PREV would be just an alias for COMMITTED-1. And
{2002-11-28}+1 would give you the first commit after midnight morning on
that day.

And I feel that HEAD:HEAD-10 is more descriptive as well.

Caveat: This would disallow using +- in symbolic revision identifiers.
But I don't see any harm in that.

What do you think?

/Klaus

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Received on Mon Jul 5 13:49:59 2004