help/multirevs.txt
author Martin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net>
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:16:27 +0200
changeset 9623 32727ce029de
parent 9540 cad36e496640
permissions -rw-r--r--
minirst: convert ``foo`` into "foo" upon display This lets us markup many more occurances of inline literals since they no longer look strange in the terminal output.

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.