mercurial/help/multirevs.txt
author Alexander Plavin <alexander@plav.in>
Wed, 07 Aug 2013 01:21:31 +0400
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revset: add helper function to get functions used in a revset parse tree Will be used to determine whether all functions used in a hgweb search query are allowed there.
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When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be specified
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individually, or provided as a topologically continuous range,
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separated by the ":" character.
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The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END are
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revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If BEGIN is not
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specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END is not specified,
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it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus means "all revisions".
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If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in reverse order.
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A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range of 3:5
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gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 9:6 gives 9, 8, 7, and 6.