[PATCH 0 of 2] Better support for diffing individual changesets.

cryo at cyanite.org cryo at cyanite.org
Thu Oct 9 04:31:32 CDT 2008


I wrote,

> Yes, that would definately be nice; why not adopt git's scheme? IIRC it's
> ^ for parent (which can be repeated) and ~n for n steps back?.
> Then "just" invent a symbol for 'other parent' (unless git already
> has one), % say, and we can do stuff like -r 14%-14 (and, say, -r %
> for 'parent 2 of wd'). [... etc etc ...]

...and that illustrates well that my memory of git revspecs isn't great,
and after reading the parentrevspec extension again I stand corrected on
the syntax and the existing possiblity of refering to differnt parents
;-). Sorry about that.

-- 
Sune.




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