On Sep 16, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>>>>> "Warren" == Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com> writes:
>>>>>>
>
>  Warren> Is there a reason Subversion doesn't yet support fuzzy dates
>  Warren> like "yesterday", or "3 weeks ago"?  This is the only thing
>  Warren> about CVS that I miss in Subversion.  It makes backing up to
>  Warren> a previous state in an ad hoc way much easier.
>
>  Warren> Reasons you might want this:
>
>  Warren> - you want to see what happened since yesterday: svn diff
>  Warren> -r{yesterday}
>
> ....
>
> I agree those would be nice to have.
>
> In the meantime, it's pretty easy to do that in a script; "awk" has
> everything you need.
We used to have that feature (we stole the date-parsing bison file  
from CVS!), but then removed it just before releasing 1.0.  We  
decided it would be a nightmare to support.  I think there might be  
an enhancement issue already filed to add such a feature back in, but  
in a very "controlled" way.
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Received on Fri Sep 16 20:31:10 2005