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revset: lookup descendents for negative arguments to ancestor operator

Negative offsets to the `~` operator now search for descendents. The search is
aborted when a node has more than one child as we do not have a definition for
'nth child'. Optionally we can introduce such a notion and take the nth child
ordered by rev number.

The current revset language does provides a short operator for ancestor lookup
but not for descendents. This gives user a simple revset to move to the previous
changeset, e.g. `hg up '.~1'` but not to the 'next' changeset. With this change
userse can now use `.~-1` as a shortcut to move to the next changeset.
This fits better into allowing users to specify revisions via revsets and
avoiding the need for special `hg next` and `hg prev` operations.

The alternative to negative offsets is adding a new operator. We do not have
many operators in ascii left that do not require bash escaping (',', '_', and
'/' come to mind). If we decide that we should add a more convenient short
operator such as ('/', e.g. './1') we can later add it and allow ascendents
lookup via negative numbers.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# mercurial - scalable distributed SCM
#
# Copyright 2005-2007 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

import os
import sys

if os.environ.get('HGUNICODEPEDANTRY', False):
    try:
        reload(sys)
        sys.setdefaultencoding("undefined")
    except NameError:
        pass

libdir = '@LIBDIR@'

if libdir != '@' 'LIBDIR' '@':
    if not os.path.isabs(libdir):
        libdir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)),
                              libdir)
        libdir = os.path.abspath(libdir)
    sys.path.insert(0, libdir)

# enable importing on demand to reduce startup time
try:
    if sys.version_info[0] < 3 or sys.version_info >= (3, 6):
        import hgdemandimport; hgdemandimport.enable()
except ImportError:
    sys.stderr.write("abort: couldn't find mercurial libraries in [%s]\n" %
                     ' '.join(sys.path))
    sys.stderr.write("(check your install and PYTHONPATH)\n")
    sys.exit(-1)

import mercurial.util
import mercurial.dispatch

for fp in (sys.stdin, sys.stdout, sys.stderr):
    mercurial.util.setbinary(fp)

mercurial.dispatch.run()