Re: 'svn merge -rX' UI annoyance.

C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato <at> 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"?

in svk, we use merge -c to say merge that change, to avoid confuse
people with revision being sometimes referring to a tree but sometimes
a change.

So you can also merge -c -12, which means to -r12:11 for rolling things
back.

Cheers,
CLK

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Received on Thu Aug 4 17:44:22 2005