Re: [PATCH] -r { DATE } with words

On 05/21/2011 02:02 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> But I'd rather use "in 3 months" or something like that than +3m.

wait, now you're also reaching to the future :)

No I was thinking, if I want to have a range, then I could pinpoint the
start with a revision, date, whatever, and the end of the range could be
given by -r {+3d} (three days from that point on, and similar).

> It's simply less cryptic.
...to the English speaking, yes. Next, people will want to have German,
French, Zulu words as well...

What I like about my format idea is that it is considerably less language
dependent (can be documented in any language without imposing English
spelling on the user) and has considerably less characters to type. It also
avoids the whole discussion around "day" vs. "days" or whether "yestrday"
should also be understood, etc.

Remember our hackathon discussions -- even to a native English speaker, -r
{yesterday} isn't self-documenting at all. "Yesterday" is a fuzzy concept...
IMHO {-1d} is more clearly == -24h. ......

> But since we support a lot of "absolute" time formats there's no
> reason why we couldn't have more than one "relative" format.
> This is probably the best answer to the problem of different people
> having different taste :)

sure, let's have libsvn_dateparsing.
Oh well, I thought you might have liked my proposal :)

We should probably have a separate commandline tool instead that creates
absolute timestamps:

   svn log -r "{`reldate yesterday`}"

then I can have my own one. Not that I really use dates. But I *might* get
used to {-3d} ;) Anyway, you go ahead, I'm outta here...

~Neels
Received on 2011-05-22 04:52:04 CEST