Bazaar

bzr log should accept multiple files

Bug #211852 reported by Stefan Monnier
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Bazaar
Fix Released
Wishlist
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Bazaar 1.14rc2

Bug Description

Currently "bzr log" only accepts a single "location", but it would make a lot of sense to allow multiple files to be specified. It is already possible to specify more than one file but less than the whole tree, by specifying a subdirectory, so there doesn't seem to be any good reason to disallow specifying a list of files (or subdirectories), just as it is accepted by "bzr diff", "bzr revert", ...

It seems this is linked to the fact that a branch can be specified instead of a file, but maybe the two should not be conflated since I may very well want to see the log for file <foo> in branch sftp://host/bar.

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Vincent Ladeuil (vila) wrote :

Indeed bzr log accepts a single argument which is dwimified into either a branch path or a file/dir path.

I think the rationale was that they are the most common use cases. This need to be revisited to handle your use cases.

Changed in bzr:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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dann (dann-ics) wrote :

1. bzr log SUBDIR
does not seem to DTRT, it only lists a single log entry, it should show the logs for all the changes in that subdirectory.
When working on a big project, one might just want to look at what changed in a particular subdirectory, this is where such a command comes in handy.

2. bzr log LIST_OF_FILES_AND_DIRECTORIES
is also extremely useful, sometimes when hunting a bug, you can suspect that it can be in FILE1.c FILE1.h or FILE2.c
then doing a bzr log for those files is a very easy way to find the last changes for them.

Karl Fogel (kfogel)
description: updated
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Karl Fogel (kfogel) wrote :

Case 2 in dann's comment above is a separate issue, and is filed:

   https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/97715

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Karl Fogel (kfogel) wrote :

This thread is relevant to this bug:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/50472

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Karl Fogel (kfogel) wrote :

And this other thread, while not directly relevant to fixing the bug, explains why some developers want the fix:

   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-12/threads.html#00326

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Marius Kruger (amanica) wrote :

The fix for this snuck into 1.13.2 where you can now do for example:
bzr log -v README INSTALL
(selected the earliest milestone)

Changed in bzr:
milestone: none → 1.14rc2
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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