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bzr st docs are not clear about using historical revisions

Bug #532600 reported by Per Johansson
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Bug Description

svn diff has a useful --summarize flag to show what files changed between two revision. It is similar to the extra info output by log -v, but you can apply it to any two revisions. Eg:

$ bzr diff --summarize -r -3..
modified:
  __init__.py
  log.py

bzr can do this using 'bzr status' but this could be documented or made more clear in the help (of diff, status, or the user guide.)

See original description

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lp:~jbowtie/bzr/doc-bzr-st-historical-532600
Vincent Ladeuil: Approve
John A Meinel: Needs Fixing
Diff: 18 lines (+6/-2)
1 file modified
bzrlib/builtins.py (+6/-2)
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Neil Martinsen-Burrell (nmb) wrote :

The bzr-diffstat plugin (http://launchpad.net/bzr-diffstat) provides a similar summary, using a format similar to git's diff stat. After installation, it is available as ``bzr diff --stat``.

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 532600] [NEW] bzr diff --summarize

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Per Johansson wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> svn diff has a useful --summarize flag to show what files changed
> between two revision. It is similar to the extra info output by log -v,
> but you can apply it to any two revisions. Eg:
>
> $ bzr diff --summarize -r -3..
> modified:
> __init__.py
> log.py
>
> ** Affects: bzr
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>

 bzr status -r -3..

I don't think we need to add it to 'diff'.

John
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Changed in bzr:
status: New → Invalid
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

 status incomplete

'bzr st -r -3..' will do precisely this. Are you asking for an alias to
that on diff, or better docs? Or were you unaware that 'bzr st' worked?

-Rob

Changed in bzr:
status: Invalid → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Per Johansson (per.j) wrote : Re: bzr diff --summarize

I was unaware that status would do this, and I don't think it's very obvious from the bzr help status page either.

Martin Pool (mbp)
description: updated
Changed in bzr:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: added: diff doc easy help status
Robert Collins (lifeless)
summary: - bzr diff --summarize
+ bzr st docs are not clear about using historical evisions
Changed in bzr:
importance: Low → Wishlist
tags: removed: diff easy help status
Vincent Ladeuil (vila)
summary: - bzr st docs are not clear about using historical evisions
+ bzr st docs are not clear about using historical revisions
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
tags: added: check-for-breezy
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