Re: cvs log options ( was Re: cvs rtag -r BRANCH -D date)

[Derek R. Price]

Stephen Rasku wrote:

> cvs admin -o uses a colon syntax to specify a revision range and cvs log
> uses the same (or similar) syntax to specify revisions (except for the
> space problem mentioned above) but it uses a different syntax for dates.
> First of all, it uses -d instead of -D and it uses a greater than/less
> than syntax.  I would prefer using a -D syntax that mirrors the -r syntax.
>  So you would do some thing like this:
>
>         cvs log -D <date> -D now
>         cvs log -D start -D <date>
>         cvs log -D <date1> -D <date2>
>         etc.

This sounds usable.


> I would also change the -r option so that it matches "cvs update" and "cvs
> diff".  It would work like this:
>
>         cvs log -r <rev1> -r <rev2>
>         cvs log -r <rev>.origin -r <rev>
>         cvs log -r <rev> -r HEAD
>         cvs log -r <branch>
>         cvs log -r <branch1> -r <branch2>

Hmm... interesting.  This might be doable without loss of functionality in
conjunction with Stephen Cameron's .origin/.trunk patch.  I'd like more
feedback on Cameron's patch before adoption, though.  If you'd like to
download and try it, Steve keeps it at
http://www.geocities.com/dotslashstar/branch_patch.html .

Derek

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