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Re: 'svn merge -rX' UI annoyance.

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-08-04 17:14:33 CEST

Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> writes:

> On 2005-08-04 10:59:49 Mark Phippard wrote:
> > cmpilato@localhost.localdomain wrote on 08/04/2005 10:51:10 AM:
> > > I'm constantly frustrated that passing -rX (instead of -rX:Y) as the
> > > operative range for merge operations doesn't default to -rX:X-1
> > > behavior. Like, I wanna say "cherry pick a merge of revision 14"
> > > and I run 'svn merge -r14 ...' only to get bounced for not having
> > > specified a full revision range.
> > >
> > > What would others think about relaxing the 'svn merge' UI such that
> > > passing a single revision means, "merge that one revision"?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > How about a new "cherry-pick" syntax like: --revs 14,17,21 that would
> > merge those specific revisions?
>
> Ooooo.... NICE! Yes, one of those, please. And maybe it could be
> extended to "-r14,17,21:29,35" ?

Mmm... that *is* nice. But I wouldn't give +1 to it until we worked
out the failure case.

And I *absolutely, positively* don't want a massive design discussion
launched about such a UI extension to prevent mass acceptance of my
tiny little UI change request. :-)

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