Strictly from the view of the non-developer and user of SVN; I have only ever used the ":" for specifying a range. But I do see the sanity in having the input match the output too. If the ability to support both is indeed trivial - and if both cases are "expected" by users - then that would certainly seem to be the most worthwhile choice.
Gavin "Beau" Baumanis On 03/10/2010, at 12:34 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Peter Samuelson] >> Is this, then, a worthwhile feature addition? I don't want to add >> syntax that nobody else wants. In particular, this patch highlights >> the existing inconsistency of ":" vs. "-" as range operators. > > Hmmm, in tests/cmdline/log_tests.py XFail(log_chanage_range), I see > Lieven thought -c might someday take ranges with ":" instead of "-". > But since the output uses "-", I'd argue the cut-and-paste utility of > sticking with that outweighs the consistency of ":". Unless perhaps we > should support both, which would be trivial. > > Peter
