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diff mercurial/help/revsets.txt @ 14098:9f5a0acb0056
revset aliases
author | Alexander Solovyov <alexander@solovyov.net> |
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date | Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:30:14 +0200 |
parents | 305c97670d7a |
children | 0be6dc3d8083 |
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--- a/mercurial/help/revsets.txt Sat Apr 30 19:41:53 2011 +0200 +++ b/mercurial/help/revsets.txt Sat Apr 30 18:30:14 2011 +0200 @@ -61,6 +61,26 @@ .. predicatesmarker +New predicates (known as "aliases") can be defined, using any combination of +existing predicates or other aliases. An alias definition looks like:: + + <alias> = <definition> + +in the ``revsetalias`` section of ``.hgrc``. Arguments of the form `$1`, `$2`, +etc. are substituted from the alias into the definition. + +For example, + +:: + + [revsetalias] + h = heads() + d($1) = sort($1, date) + rs($1, $2) = reverse(sort($1, $2)) + +defines three aliases, ``h``, ``d``, and ``rs``. ``rs(0:tip, author)`` is +exactly equivalent to ``reverse(sort(0:tip, author))``. + Command line equivalents for :hg:`log`:: -f -> ::.