From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:20:08 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <200610212020.08539.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <453A5F6D.7020306@utoronto.ca>

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Jeff King wrote:
>> 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 branch mirror and knowing how out-of-date it is.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
> 
>> Does bzr have a similar shorthand for mentioning relative commits?
> 
> Yes, you could e.g. do:
> 
> bzr diff -r before:753..753

What about grandparent of commit (d8a60^^ or d8a60~2 in git),
or choosing one of the parents in merge commit (d8a60^2 is second
parent of a commit)? before:before:753 ?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland