Re: Confusing situation regarding revisions and changes

On 9/20/07, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> wrote:
> My mail was triggered by a mail (or IRC) thread which I have trouble
> finding now.

For the record, I raised this issue in the svn mergeinfo thread
because I know you disagreed and I wanted to give you an opportunity
to reply. You had mentioned on IRC that you did not remember seeing
this issue discussed.

> But we have never (until now) sent output to the user which looks like this:
>
> $ svn merge -r40:45 <some-url> .
> Merging revisions 41 to 45
>
> (What happened to 40?!)

Given the wording of the message, including 40 would be incorrect in
my opinion. It could perhaps say:

Merge revision range 40 to 45

Or something to that effect to make it a little more clear.

> This is why I say, "let's support -c 40-45" which would mean exactly
> what people can find in the mergeinfo property *and* as the output
> from the commandline client. That way, there's little room for
> confusion, since we'll just start telling people to use -c with diff
> and merge. -r is for looking at the nodes, -c for the edges, meaning
> that -r makes sense for log, update, switch, copy etc. Just not for
> diff, merge and mergetracking output.

I am not against expanding the -c logic. As part of issue 2818, I'd
like to see us support something like:

-c 10-15, 18, 21-23, 30

I don't see how that factors into this issue though. Are you saying
you would want the merge output to vary based on whether -r or -c was
used?

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