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Re: 'svn merge -rX' UI annoyance.

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-08-04 18:14:20 CEST

kfogel@collab.net writes:

> "C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato@collab.net> writes:
> > 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"?
>
> +1 Love the idea!
>
> I hope you meant it for both 'svn diff' and 'svn merge'?

Diff already has a meaning for -rN, so, no, I didn't mean it for diff,
too. Not sure if the current 'svn diff -rN' behavior is better than
this new proposal ... haven't thought it through.

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