Re: svn -D syntax

>> 2. Pick a different separator for ranges, which isn't used in
>> dates. Looking at the punctuation symbols on my keyboard,
>> there isn't a good choice other than maybe "--" or "::".

> What's wrong with ','?

  November 12, 1973
  Tuesday, 12 November 1973

Not that I am wedded to understanding these formats, but we understand
them now.

>> 3. Nuke the -D option, and consider dates to be a special syntax
>> of revision names; perhaps they would need to be enclosed in
>> brackets. So we'd have "-r '[2002-10-10]:23'" for the range
>> {rev as of 2002-10-10} to {rev 23}. Of course, then all dates
>> have to be shell-quoted, since shells are rather proprietary
>> about the various kinds of brackets.

> I like this in combination with the above. For example, "-r
> '[2002-10-10 16:00:00,23)'".

Either the brackets denote a date instead of a revision, or they
denote the inclusivity/exclusivity of a range. They can't do double
duty.

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Received on Thu Oct 17 06:18:59 2002