mercurial/help/revisions.txt
author Wei, Elson <elson.wei@gmail.com>
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:35:53 +0800
branchstable
changeset 19503 f2dfda6ac152
parent 16740 43cfe56121d3
child 20245 4edd179fefb8
permissions -rw-r--r--
ancestor.deepest: decrement ninteresting correctly (issue3984) The invariant this code tries to hold is that ninteresting is the number of non-zero elements in the interesting array. interesting[nsp] is incremented at the same time as interesting[sp] is decremented. So if interesting[nsp] was previously 0, ninteresting shouldn't be decremented.

Mercurial supports several ways to specify individual revisions.

A plain integer is treated as a revision number. Negative integers are
treated as sequential offsets from the tip, with -1 denoting the tip,
-2 denoting the revision prior to the tip, and so forth.

A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revision
identifier.

A hexadecimal string less than 40 characters long is treated as a
unique revision identifier and is referred to as a short-form
identifier. A short-form identifier is only valid if it is the prefix
of exactly one full-length identifier.

Any other string is treated as a bookmark, tag, or branch name. A
bookmark is a movable pointer to a revision. A tag is a permanent name
associated with a revision. A branch name denotes the tipmost revision
of that branch. Bookmark, tag, and branch names must not contain the ":"
character.

The reserved name "tip" always identifies the most recent revision.

The reserved name "null" indicates the null revision. This is the
revision of an empty repository, and the parent of revision 0.

The reserved name "." indicates the working directory parent. If no
working directory is checked out, it is equivalent to null. If an
uncommitted merge is in progress, "." is the revision of the first
parent.