Stefan Sperling wrote on Sat, May 21, 2011 at 13:07:19 +0200: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:20:41PM +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, May 20, 2011 at 17:26:39 +0200: > > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 04:28:55PM +0200, Neels J Hofmeyr wrote: > > > > BUT, why don't we just use standardized unit letters? e.g. {-1d} > > > > means one day ago. Then we'd have something like > > > > > > > > [-+]<float-nr>[YyMDdHhmSs] > > > > > > What would we need the + for? > > > > (see below) > > > > > We cannot resolve future revisions. > > > > > > > That's a false statement. > > Can you explain why? > Do you mean if people set their clock to the past?
Either that, or set their svn:date properties to the future. I'm basically saying that 'svn log -r {yyyy-mm-dd} file:///path/to/somewhere' does not depend on what the machine thinks the current time is.