mercurial/revset.py

--- a/mercurial/revset.py	Tue Mar 25 14:10:01 2014 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/revset.py	Mon Mar 31 16:03:34 2014 -0700
@@ -1480,8 +1480,8 @@
     """``roots(set)``
     Changesets in set with no parent changeset in set.
     """
-    s = getset(repo, baseset(repo.changelog), x).set()
-    subset = baseset([r for r in subset if r in s])
+    s = getset(repo, spanset(repo), x).set()
+    subset = baseset([r for r in s if r in subset.set()])
     cs = _children(repo, subset, s)
     return subset - cs