mercurial/help/multirevs.txt
author Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:41:45 -0800
changeset 23661 dbd60f8d88d5
parent 9999 f91e5630ce7e
permissions -rw-r--r--
trydiff: use sets, not lists, for containment checks This only has a noticeable effect on diffs touching A LOT of files. For example, it takes hg diff -r FIREFOX_AURORA_30_BASE -r FIREFOX_AURORA_35_BASE from 1m55.465s to 1m32.354s. That diff has over 50k files.

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.