annotate mercurial/help/multirevs.txt @ 30464:e16e234b9ca3

httppeer: do decompression inside _callstream

The current HTTP transport protocol only compresses certain command
responses and requires calls to that command to call
"_callcompressable," which zlib decompresses the response
transparently.

Upcoming changes will enable *any* response to be compressed with
varying compression formats. In order to handle this better, this
commit moves the decompression bits to the main function performing
the HTTP request. We introduce an underscore-prefixed argument to
denote this behavior so it doesn't conflict with a named argument
to a command.

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.