From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:18:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Specifying revisions in the future
Message-ID: <vpqipjlf309.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <jgjkk0$qrg$1@dough.gmane.org>

jpaugh@gmx.us writes:

> Hello.
>
> Is it possible to specify revisions in the future?

You mean, the opposite of <commit>^ or <commit>~n?

AFAIK, there isn't, and there's a good reason for that: <commit>^ is
well-defined, it's the first parent of <commit>, and it won't change
unless one rewrites this commit.

"the successor of <commit>", OTOH, is not well defined, since there can
be several successors, and one can't order them reliably (you can't
really know the set of successors, because they can exist in different
repositories).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/