# HG changeset patch
# User Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
# Date 1607568712 28800
# Node ID 8837498ae6e0b7e40f1444f84ec7347bad5eaa28
# Parent  64292addbe67bf4f089704cfcaf868aba7a5443b
docs: prefer `hg diff --from/--to` over `-r`

This patch includes updating away from the broken `hg diff -r
'date(...)'` (see not in previous patch).

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9555

diff -r 64292addbe67 -r 8837498ae6e0 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Dec 09 18:31:19 2020 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Dec 09 18:51:52 2020 -0800
@@ -2509,11 +2509,11 @@
 
       - compare two historical versions of a directory, with rename info::
 
-          hg diff --git -r 1.0:1.2 lib/
+          hg diff --git --from 1.0 --to 1.2 lib/
 
       - get change stats relative to the last change on some date::
 
-          hg diff --stat -r "date('may 2')"
+          hg diff --stat --from "date('may 2')"
 
       - diff all newly-added files that contain a keyword::
 
@@ -2521,9 +2521,9 @@
 
       - compare a revision and its parents::
 
-          hg diff -c 9353         # compare against first parent
-          hg diff -r 9353^:9353   # same using revset syntax
-          hg diff -r 9353^2:9353  # compare against the second parent
+          hg diff -c 9353                  # compare against first parent
+          hg diff --from 9353^ --to 9353   # same using revset syntax
+          hg diff --from 9353^2 --to 9353  # compare against the second parent
 
     Returns 0 on success.
     """
@@ -2964,7 +2964,7 @@
 
       is thus pretty much the same as::
 
-        hg diff -r 234 -r 345 | hg import
+        hg diff --from 234 --to 345 | hg import
 
       but using merge to resolve conflicts and track moved files.