From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Bentley Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:57:01 -0400 Message-ID: <453A5F6D.7020306@utoronto.ca> References: <200610180246.18758.jnareb@gmail.com> <45357CC3.4040507@utoronto.ca> <4536EC93.9050305@utoronto.ca> <87lkncev90.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <453792A8.1010700@utoronto.ca> <878xjc2qeb.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <453803E6.2060309@utoronto.ca> <87ods727pn.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <45382120.9060702@utoronto.ca> <20061020141222.GA17497@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Carl Worth , Linus Torvalds , Jakub Narebski , Andreas Ericsson , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 21 19:57:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GbL5s-0007pR-Or for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:57:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1766619AbWJUR5J (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:57:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1766622AbWJUR5J (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:57:09 -0400 Received: from server4.panoramicfeedback.com ([66.216.124.41]:52398 "EHLO server4.panoramicfeedback.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1766619AbWJUR5H (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:57:07 -0400 Received: from server4.panoramicfeedback.com ([66.216.124.41] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by server4.panoramicfeedback.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GbL5j-0002VH-00; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:57:04 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) To: Jeff King In-Reply-To: <20061020141222.GA17497@coredump.intra.peff.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 X-Panometrics-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 branch mirror and knowing how out-of-date it is.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 Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFOl9s0F+nu1YWqI0RAhW7AJ4vi4kgen/8h6j2AgueU+kcsmLrPwCeKry9 pp68K4rAmXjjkPvK32LvmPk= =qDn2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----