Re: VCS comparison table

Aaron Bentley wrote:

Jeff King wrote:

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

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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branch mirror and knowing how out-of-date it is.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

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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