annotate mercurial/help/multirevs.txt @ 29808:8d226db31f20

computeoutgoing: move the function from 'changegroup' to 'exchange' Now that all users are in exchange, we can safely move the code in the 'exchange' module. This function is really about processing the argument of a 'getbundle' call, so it even makes senses to do so.
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
date Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:06:35 +0200
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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.