From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:12:22 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <20061020141222.GA17497@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <45382120.9060702@utoronto.ca>

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:06:40PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:

> What's nice is being able see the revno 753 and knowing that "diff -r
> 752..753" will show the changes it introduced.  Checking the revo on a
> branch mirror and knowing how out-of-date it is.

I was accustomed to doing such things in CVS, but I find the git way
much more pleasant, since I don't have to do any arithmetic:
  diff d8a60^..d8a60
(Yes, I am capable of performing subtraction in my head, but I find that
a "parent-of" operator matches my cognitive model better, especially
when you get into things like d8a60^2~3).

Does bzr have a similar shorthand for mentioning relative commits?

-Peff