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Sune Foldager cryo at cyanite.org
Sun Feb 15 11:51:28 CST 2009


I agree with the need for "real" ranges (graphwise instead of revision  
numbers), and since : is taken, :: seems like a good candidate. Or  
maybe ".." could work. Would also be nice to have ways to select  
"parent of", "second parent of" and "n csets back from" like git does.

-- Sune

On 15/02/2009, at 15.27, Alpár Jüttner <alpar at cs.elte.hu> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 17:19 +0300, Stepan Koltsov wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 17:12, Alpár Jüttner <alpar at cs.elte.hu> wr 
>> ote:
>>>>> braces are special symbols in shell. In bash
>>>>>
>>>>> echo parent(6)
>>>>>
>>>>> produces error. It must be written as:
>>>>>
>>>>> echo 'parent(6)'
>>>>
>>>> Good point, I hadn't thought of that.
>>>
>>> What about using square braces instead?
>>
>> Square braces are special too :)
>
> Ah!! I'm stupid. I made the simple test of 'echo parent[6]' instead of
> starting to think.
> Sorry for the noise.
>
> Anyhow I would still be more happy if :: were used for the "real"
> ranges.
>
> Alpar



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