How to get the diff between two arbitrary remote revisions?

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:06:51 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> Jan Hudec wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 23:02:48 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> >> Robey Pointer wrote:
> >> | All I really meant was:
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> >> | I don't think -r should let you shunt across to a different branch  from
> >> | the branch currently in context.
> >> |
> >> | AIUI, "-r revid:bar" will only look up the revision in the current-
> >> | context branch
> >>
> >> No, revid is completely context-independent.  It's a universally unique
> >> identifier.  You can specify any revision id you like.  Of course, if
> >> it's not stored in your branch, the operation isn't likely to succeed.
> >> But it's quite common for a branch to store revisions that aren't
> >> ancestors of the latest revision.  Happens every time you merge.
> > 
> > It's not common. It only happens when you have a *PENDING* merge.
> > Becase once you commit, they become ancestors of the current revision.
> > 
> > --
> > 						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
> 
> Unless you change your mind and do a "bzr revert", then they just stay
> there. (Which isn't terrible, because you might try to merge later, and
> then you have them).

But the point is that they then _are_ ancestors of the current revision.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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