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annotate mercurial/help/multirevs.txt @ 22253:4cdc3c333806
obsstore: add some documentation about the marker fields
As the number of fields grow, it makes sense to start documenting their contents.
author | Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@fb.com> |
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date | Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:42:08 -0700 |
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1 When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be specified |
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2 individually, or provided as a topologically continuous range, |
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3 separated by the ":" character. |
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5 The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END are |
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6 revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If BEGIN is not |
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7 specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END is not specified, |
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8 it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus means "all revisions". |
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10 If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in reverse order. |
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12 A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range of 3:5 |
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13 gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 9:6 gives 9, 8, 7, and 6. |