mercurial/help/multirevs.txt
author Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:18:09 -0500
branchstable
changeset 16534 11212babc690
parent 9999 f91e5630ce7e
permissions -rw-r--r--
merge: check for untracked files more precisely (issue3400) This fixes the regression, but still leaves the long-standing issue that merge doesn't cope with trying to merge files and directories.

When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be specified
individually, or provided as a topologically continuous range,
separated by the ":" character.

The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END are
revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If BEGIN is not
specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END is not specified,
it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus means "all revisions".

If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in reverse order.

A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range of 3:5
gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 9:6 gives 9, 8, 7, and 6.