below...
Max Bowsher wrote:
> Tim Hill wrote:
>
>> Hi, I don't want to clog-up the bug list if this has already been
>> discussed...
>>
>> Has anyone thought about adding richer ways to specify revision
>> numbers in a repository? Specifically, if I want to compare (say)
>> "foo.c" at revision N, with "foo.c" as it existed before rev N, I
>> can't currently do this without examining the log (or checking out
>> rev N and using COMMITTED). This seems to me to be an area where svn
>> is weak: I seem to be spending too much time scanning logs for
>> information that svn should be able to supply automatically.
>>
>> Some examples of what I think would help:
>>
>> *- r N:-M * If "M" is negative, interpret as the absolute value
>> "N-M" (e.g. "-r 10:-5" is the same as "-r 10:5"). The same can be used
>> with N, so "-r -1:10" means "-r 9:10" or -r -1:HEAD means the head and
>> previous revisions. Both N and M can't both be negative.
>
>
> This is incredibly cryptic, and just a matter of simple arithmetic.
Well, it is if you're typing it -- but what if I'm scripting stuff? Yes,
I can jump through hoops parsing output of log files and feed them back
into svn commands, but that's not my idea of fun.
>
>> *-r N:*M * The "*" means the "Mth" change to the item, going
>> backwards in the log, and again either N or M can be qualified (but
>> not both). So "-r *1:10" means revision 10 and the previous commit of
>> the item (i.e. go back N log entries).
>
>
> See "svn log --limit" (1.2 and later).
>
>> Also, how about "*' by itself meaning the same rev # as the
>> --stop-on-copy rev for the item (i.e. the last branch). So "-r *:HEAD"
>> means the two revisions at each "end" of the branch?
>
>
> Ideally, the syntax would allow you to specify "branch base" in such a
> way that it still worked even if the branch was copied-and-modified in
> a single revision.
>
> Max.
>
>
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Received on Mon Apr 4 21:53:21 2005