Branko Čibej wrote on Thu, May 19, 2011 at 14:35:01 +0200:
> On 19.05.2011 11:53, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:38:55PM +0200, Branko Čibej wrote:
> >> Why? That doesn't make sense. Second of all, all these wordy aliases are
> >> just shorthands for real timestamps anyway -- by your reasoning, you
> >> could eliminate all of them.
> > There is otherwise no way to express dates relative to the current time.
>
> So instead of introducing a subset of the silliness that was in CVS, why
> then don't you invent an unambiguous format that /can/ express dates
> relative to the current time?
>
> For example, you might support: svn -r {-1.12:13:56}, meaning one day,
> twelve hours, 13 minutes and 56 seconds ago.
>
Which is language-independent, much shorter to type, doesn't require
quoting spaces, avoids the "months are 30 days" edge case...
Anyway, to keep things simple, how about: a '{' followed by either
a plus or a minus means "N days in the future/past" where N is the
number following the plus-or-minus; and if the plus-or-minus is missing
is missing, then it's parsed as a date.
> -- Brane
>
