[darcs-users] Discrepancies in darcs changes --from-match='date ...'

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Tue Apr 5 12:35:54 UTC 2005


On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:37:12PM +0200, Tommy Pettersson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:07:56AM -0400, David Roundy wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 06:31:06PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > > Yes, I agree.  Maybe it needs --from-date, --to-date flags to do date
> > > searches in the expected fashion?
> > 
> > The catch is that in general --from-* and --to-* refer to repository order,
> > not date.  So perhaps something more like --before-date and --after-date,
> > to differentiate?
> 
> Or maybe --matches 'date "after mar 1" && date "before mar 31"'

Yes, that would definitely be good as well... would fall under heading #34,
date range parser.  But a simple quick --before-date "march 31" would
certainly seem like a good thing.  I usually find the --matches syntax
annoyingly awkward, although it certainly is flexible.
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David Roundy
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