Re: Confusing situation regarding revisions and changes

On 9/20/07, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> wrote:

> Merge tracking has started using revisions differently from how we did
> before: we used to say r30:35 which would mean "The difference between
> the states in revision 30 and 35". Merge tracking talks about
> revisions as r30-35 which means "The difference between the states in
> revision 29 and 35".

$ svn log -r 30:35 http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn
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r30 | joe | 2001-09-03 20:46:55 -0400 (Mon, 03 Sep 2001) | 2 lines

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r31 | cmpilato | 2001-09-04 10:46:28 -0400 (Tue, 04 Sep 2001) | 3 lines

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r32 | kevin | 2001-09-04 11:28:26 -0400 (Tue, 04 Sep 2001) | 34 lines

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r33 | cmpilato | 2001-09-04 11:59:16 -0400 (Tue, 04 Sep 2001) | 4 lines

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r34 | cmpilato | 2001-09-04 12:57:19 -0400 (Tue, 04 Sep 2001) | 3 lines

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r35 | sussman | 2001-09-04 13:14:40 -0400 (Tue, 04 Sep 2001) | 15 lines

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> I find this utterly confusing and even though several people have
> argued that users think of revisions as changes, I don't think it's a
> reason for us to start conflating the two.

Utterly confusing? Really? In all of the proposed places it is using
this format it is in a situation where these revisions have already
been applied. Arguably, this is closer to svn log, then it is to svn
merge/diff where you are using the revisions to tell it to do
something.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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