mercurial/help/multirevs.txt
author Lucas Moscovicz <lmoscovicz@fb.com>
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:19:30 -0800
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revset: changed limit revset implementation to work with lazy revsets Performance benchmarking: $ time hg log -qr "first(branch(default))" 0:9117c6561b0b real 0m3.130s user 0m3.025s sys 0m0.074s $ time ./hg log -qr "first(branch(default))" 0:9117c6561b0b real 0m0.300s user 0m0.198s sys 0m0.069s
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When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be specified
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individually, or provided as a topologically continuous range,
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separated by the ":" character.
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The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END are
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revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If BEGIN is not
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specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END is not specified,
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it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus means "all revisions".
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If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in reverse order.
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A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range of 3:5
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gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 9:6 gives 9, 8, 7, and 6.